Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century
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- Episode
- Episode 1
- Broadcast Info
- 2011 (59 mins)
- Description
- A specially commissioned documentary in which Michael Sandel, the world renowned Harvard professor, looks at the philosophy of justice.
Is it acceptable to torture a terrorist in order to discover where a bomb has been hidden? Should wearing the Burka in public be banned in Europe, if the majority of citzens disapprove? Should beggars be cleared off the streets of London? Harvard professor Michael Sandel, goes in search of Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant and Aristotle, three philosophers whose ideas inform much contemporary thinking on justice, and tests their theories against a range of contemporary problems.
Filmed in Berlin, Boston, Athens and London, this thought provoking film includes interviews with the world’s great philosophers, modern day politicians and thinkers from all around the globe. - Genre
- Criminology; Law; Culture; Religion
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The Open University, "Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/81996 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)