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There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the second. The only way to create a flourishing democracy is to find ways to reason together about the big questions, including hard questions about justice and the common good, to reason together about these questions so that we as citizens can decide how to shape the forces that govern our lives.

Michael Sandel's Popular Quotes

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferenc…

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The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figur…

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You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

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It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institut…

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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

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A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market va…

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