{"id":3415,"date":"2009-12-02T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T17:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2009-12-02T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T17:04:20","slug":"michael-sandels-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/michael-sandels-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sandel&#8217;s Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To nobody&#8217;s surprise, universities are increasingly putting some effort into putting high-quality course lectures on the Web.  (Where this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/03\/will-the-internet-replace-universities\/\">ultimately will lead<\/a> isn&#8217;t completely clear.)  We&#8217;ve already mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/06\/02\/susskind-lectures-on-general-relativity\/\">Leonard Susskind&#8217;s lectures on GR<\/a> at Stanford.  Now from Harvard, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceharvard.org\/\">a course on Justice by Michael Sandel<\/a>.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliansanchez.com\/2009\/12\/02\/sandels-justice\/\">Julian Sanchez<\/a>.)  They really went all-out on the production values, teaming with the local public TV station WGBH; this looks a lot better than what you would get from someone in the middle of the room with a hand-held camera.<\/p>\n<p>The lectures were held in Harvard&#8217;s Sanders Theater, which is quite a beautiful space.  You get something of an idea what it&#8217;s like to be a Harvard undergrad; there are a lot of students in the class.  Most professors don&#8217;t wear suits and ties, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To nobody&#8217;s surprise, universities are increasingly putting some effort into putting high-quality course lectures on the Web. (Where this ultimately will lead isn&#8217;t completely clear.) We&#8217;ve already mentioned Leonard Susskind&#8217;s lectures on GR at Stanford. Now from Harvard, we have a course on Justice by Michael Sandel. (Via Julian Sanchez.) They really went all-out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}