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這是關(guān)于道德與政治哲學(xué)的一個(gè)入門系列課程,主要是圍繞哈佛大學(xué)邁克爾•桑德爾教授法學(xué)系列課程《公正:該如何做是好?》展開評議。
本課程旨在引導(dǎo)觀眾一起評判性思考關(guān)于公正、平等、民主與公民權(quán)利的一些基本問題。每周,超過1000位學(xué)生來聽哈佛教授兼作家邁克爾•桑德爾的課,以拓展他們對于政治與道德哲學(xué)的認(rèn)知理解,探究固有觀念是與非。學(xué)生們同時(shí)還將接觸過去一些偉大哲學(xué)家——亞里士多德、康德、密爾、洛克。然后,應(yīng)用課程去分析復(fù)雜多變的現(xiàn)代問題:贊助性措施、同性婚姻、愛國主義、忠誠度與人權(quán)等。
桑德爾在教學(xué)中通過一些假設(shè)或真實(shí)案例的描述,置學(xué)生于倫理兩難困境中,然后要他們做出決定:“該如何做是好?”他鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生站出來為自己的觀點(diǎn)辯護(hù),這通常激發(fā)生動(dòng)而幽默的課堂辯論。桑德爾然后圍繞倫理問題展開,更深層次地觸及不同道德選擇背后的假設(shè)。這種教學(xué)法通常會揭示道德推論的矛盾本質(zhì)。
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.
This course aims to help viewers become more critically minded thinkers about the moral decisions we all face in our everyday lives.
In this 12-part series, Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do.
He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios. The result is often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.
Sorting out these contradictions sharpens our own moral convictions and gives us the moral clarity to better understand the opposing views we confront in a democracy.
Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His books include Democracy’s Discontent, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, and, most recently, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? His writings have been translated into eleven foreign languages and have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the New York Times.
Sandel has lectured widely in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand, on topics including democracy, liberalism, bioethics, globalization, and justice. He delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University, was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, and in 2009 delivered the BBC’s Reith Lectures. From 2002-2005, Sandel served on the President’s Council on Bioethics. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sandel received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
強(qiáng)烈建議各位去觀賞一下哈佛法學(xué)教授邁克爾.桑德爾的公開課《公正:該如何做是好?》(Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?)。我很清楚地知道,在《槽邊往事》的讀者中,學(xué)生們在學(xué)校里正在接受冗長的教育,公司人每年也會接受數(shù)量驚人的培訓(xùn),甚至還有人正在自修。但是, 這里我還是建議你抽一點(diǎn)時(shí)間,接受這份額外的課外學(xué)習(xí)。
這一系列課程被評為哈佛新生最歡迎的公開課,并不是因?yàn)樗贿m合涉世未深的年輕人,又或者是它只適合哈佛學(xué)生那樣的高智商人群。我推薦的它的理由在于:
1、大家可以看到什么是真正的“學(xué)習(xí)”。課程沒有任何內(nèi)容需要你強(qiáng)背記憶,也不會要求你去做筆記,但是我相信你能夠在很久之后還會記得課程所要講授的內(nèi)容,而且愿意在自己的Blog里主動(dòng)做課堂筆記。對于真正有價(jià)值的知識傳授,你沒有道理會去錯(cuò)過,或者遺忘。
2、大家可以看到什么是真正的“教學(xué)”,許多網(wǎng)友反應(yīng),看這套課程需要時(shí)常暫停。這是因?yàn)槊恳恍」?jié)里,邁克爾.桑德爾都會從平實(shí)簡單的例子出發(fā),讓 你不由自主地去思考他提出的命題。他并非回答問題,或者是解答問題,更不是灌輸你觀點(diǎn),而是自始至終激發(fā)你的腦力震蕩,對習(xí)見提出挑戰(zhàn),換從多個(gè)角度思考 看似最為簡單的事情。
3、大家可以看到什么是真正的“政治學(xué)”?!豆涸撊绾巫鍪呛??》是為法學(xué)院學(xué)生開設(shè)的課程,出發(fā)點(diǎn)是談公正和正義,一共分為12堂課。如果你看 過第一堂課,你就會知道,在愚蠢的國內(nèi)大學(xué)教育中,政治學(xué)被庸俗化和弱智化到了什么程度,以至于大家會覺得只有乏味已極且心存卑鄙之輩才應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí),人文學(xué) 科也只是紙面上的功夫。通過邁克爾.桑德爾的講授,你可以看到任意一結(jié)論的導(dǎo)出,后面都有論證的嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)和思考的精深。明白《政治學(xué)》并非只是教材上看到的那 套階級分析的蠢話,而是切實(shí)地關(guān)心我們的處境,我們的生活,并致力于實(shí)現(xiàn)真正的公正。單是看西方思想家的思辨過程,就已經(jīng)足夠性感。