5つ星のうち5.0but the others are excellent and well worth watching and thinking about
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The last discussion in this series is weak, but the others are excellent and well worth watching and thinking about. No answers to the moral questions are given, and perhaps that's a shortcoming. After all, while pointing out the weaknesses in the traditional reasoning is of value, if some sort of direction forward to a better answer isn't given,then what have you? And especially regarding moral questions, where the answers one arrives have real-life consequences...and not just for each one of us individually, but for the world we live in. So while this will guide you to think more pointedly about your current moral beliefs, it won't necessarily guide you to think more pointedly about your next ones. But the way it will guide you to think about your current ones is great.
If you are looking for some TV programming with intellectual bite and excitement, then this DVD collection is for you. It provides a complete record of a one-semester undergraduate course on moral philosophy given by Michael Sandel at Harvard university. A partial set of these lectures was shown on BBC4 in 2011, and even in an incomplete and out-of-order sequence they were enthralling. This DVD set is better. Sandel's lectures employ a humorous (downright LOL at times), Socratic-type dialogue with his undergraduate audience to penetrate and illuminate some of the trickiest moral-philosophical problems to have been tackled in the past 2000 years or so. This Socratic approach is beautifully suited to teasing out the diverging answers various philosophers have given to the series subtitle: What's the right thing to do? He doesn't so much as directly tell his students as to which thinker thought what (and why), but uses his presentations and question-and answer sessions to drive his audience (and the viewer at home) to come to their own understanding of the contrasts between, for example, the British Utilitarian school (Bentham, JS Mill, etc) and others (Kant, Locke, Rawls and so on). This approach also serves well to illustrate the very different philosophic perceptions of 4th-century BC Aristotle and more modern thinkers.
My only caveat (and hence only a four-star listing) is that the video quality on these DVDs is not as good as the broadcast quality on BBC - you will have to fiddle a bit with your brightness control to get a good picture, but once you've got that you're in for a treat. (In fact, I'm of a mind to start a repeat viewing session having just written this review.)
I saw the series mentioned on the Charlie Rose Show and was instantly arguing with the examples. I ordered the series, fired it up, and was battling with Michael Sandel in almost every example.
That level of challenge in a PBS series is rare lately. In the 80s and early 90s PBS carried complex, challenging, programs that are no longer made today.
An interesting note, watching the series I was instantly aware of how the TV series LOST echoes the themes, conflicts, and historical characters discussed in Justice. I suspect that someone on the LOST writers team took this course.
disapointment: I life in New Zealand and this CD is made for the American marked and dose not play on all CD players available here in NZ ist was a great disapointment as the sender did know my address. To solve this problem I had tp buy a CD DVD player that reads the american coding on the Michael Sandel DVD what a fuss and exspence this was. Buyer be ware of this After all that......... Sandel a great watch and learn cheers