In today’s episode, Hank asks you to consider all the ways people talk about justice and what we really mean when we use that word. We’ll explain various theories of justice, just distribution, and different approaches to punishment.
Morally correct behaviour , or a feeling that you are behaving in a morally correct way:
She is completely convinced of her own righteousness.
He has left the path of righteousness.
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Understand the concept of righteousness,
a key moral principle that encompasses justice,
virtue, and ethical conduct in various philosophical
and religious traditions.
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His anger was prompted by a sense of righteousness.
They thought the righteousness of the cause was self-evident.
Our religion tells us that we should seek righteousness.
righteous
morally correct:
He was regarded as a righteous and holy man.
“It’s not only morally righteous, it’s good business,” he said.
disapproving believing and showing that you are morally correct, and that others are not:
His righteous indignation left senators on the Commerce Committee rolling their eyes.
an outburst of righteous anger
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Most people are righteous at heart.
Her causes are always righteous and her beliefs invariably absolute.
The driver puffed himself up with righteous outrage.
She was full of righteous indignation at the thought that I was cynically testing to see how far she’d go, but offered no apology for her own behaviour.
the righteous
people who behave in a way that is morally correct
Examples of “righteous”
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- Perhaps a righteous person will have greater confidence in speaking on behalf of righteousness if he has nothing in this world.
From Cambridge English Corpus - Similarly, the sinner avoids righteous people and is attracted to the putrid elements of society.
From Cambridge English Corpus - Commentators tended to be sensitive and objective in tone, never righteous or condescending.
From Cambridge English Corpus - Since envy is shameful, it is attractive to misrepresent one’s envy as righteous anger to others.
From Cambridge English Corpus - No doubt the urge to control undesirable expression can be traced to righteous moral emotions, but the pretheoretical convictions they support should not be too quickly translated into coercive legislation.
From Cambridge English Corpus - Either you agree that the world is about to come to an end and are fired by righteous indignation, or you are a paid lackey of big business.
From Cambridge English Corpus - In sum, it is difficult to support just-deserts responsibility anywhere, but even traditional believers in just deserts and righteous retribution should have doubts about their application to medical care
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This event took place at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 22nd May 2012.
Michael Sandel is one of the world’s most acclaimed and popular political philosophers. He has given the Reith lectures, been called “the most influential foreign figure of the year” by China Newsweek, and his online video lectures for Harvard University attract millions of viewers. His book Justice was an international bestseller.
Now he turns his attention to the markets. In this special Intelligence Squared event he discussed his provocative new book, ‘What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’. Should we pay children to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn’t there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?
Sandel argued that market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life – medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. So what is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy? Come and hear Michael Sandel examine one of the biggest ethical questions of our time.
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Two decades ago, in his book Democracy’s Discontent, Michael Sandel warned that, absent a stronger civic republican spirit, liberalism would collapse, giving way to “those who would shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to ‘take back our culture and take back our county.'”
On February 22, 2017, the Harvard Law School Forum hosted Sandel to give his take on politics in the age of Trump. Here is the full audio.
Contact Pete Davis at PeDavis@JD18.law.harvard.edu for more information on the Harvard Law Forum.
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