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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What's the right thing to do?


- Jeremy Bentham's "auto-icon" (his preserved body minus his real head) on view at University College London :)

The second video class of Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s course on Justice - What's the right thing to do? - is out (you can find the first class/video at my past post here). This class is on how to put a price tag on human life, and on Jeremy Bentham's and John Stuart Mill's utilitarian ideas of pain vs pleasure. Here's the class .....




2 Comments:

Anonymous Richard said...

how very creepy (the auto icon.) Love the lectures though. Thanks!

9:56 PM  
Blogger crystal said...

Makes me think of all the relics of parted out saints :)

12:13 AM  

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