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Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 12: "DEBATING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE"
PART ONE: DEBATING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good? Students address this question in a heated debate about same-sex marriage. Should same-sex marriage be legal? Can we settle the matter without discussing the moral permissibility of homosexuality or the purpose of marriage? PART TWO: THE GOOD LIFE Professor Sandel raises two queCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 11: "THE CLAIMS OF COMMUNITY"
PART ONE: THE CLAIMS OF COMMUNITY Professor Sandel presents Kants objections to Aristotles theory. Kant believes politics must respect individual freedom. People must always respect other peoples freedom to make their own choices—a universal duty to humanity—but for Kant, there is no other source of moral obligation. The discussion of Kants view leads to an introduction to the communitarian philosophy. Communitarians argue that, in addition to voluntary and universal duties, we also have obligations of membCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 10: "THE GOOD CITIZEN"
PART ONE: THE GOOD CITIZEN Aristotle believes the purpose of politics is to promote and cultivate the virtue of its citizens. The telos or goal of the state and political community is the good life. And those citizens who contribute most to the purpose of the community are the ones who should be most rewarded. But how do we know the purpose of a community or a practice? Aristotles theory of justice leads to a contemporary debate about golf. Sandel describes the case of Casey Martin, a disabled golfer, who sCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 09: "ARGUING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"
PART ONE: ARGUING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PART TWO: WHAT'S THE PURPOSE? Part 1 Sandel describes the 1996 court case of a white woman named Cheryl Hopwood who was denied admission to a Texas law school, even though she had higher grades and test scores than some of the minority applicants who were admitted. Hopwood took her case to court, arguing the schools affirmative action program violated her rights. Students discuss the pros and cons of affirmative action. Should we try to correct for inequality in educatioCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 08: "WHATS A FAIR START?"
PART ONE: WHATS A FAIR START? Is it just to tax the rich to help the poor? John Rawls says we should answer this question by asking what principles you would choose to govern the distribution of income and wealth if you did not know who you were, whether you grew up in privilege or in poverty. Wouldnt you want an equal distribution of wealth, or one that maximally benefits whomever happens to be the least advantaged? After all, that might be you. Rawls argues that even meritocracy—a distributive system thatCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 07: "A LESSON IN LYING"
PART ONE: A LESSON IN LYING Immanuel Kants stringent theory of morality allows for no exceptions. Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a violation of ones own dignity. Professor Sandel asks students to test Kants theory with this hypothetical case: if your friend were hiding inside your home, and a person intent on killing your friend came to your door and asked you where he was, would it be wrong to tell a lie? If so, would it be moral to try to mislead the murderer without actually lyingCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 06: "MIND YOUR MOTIVE"
PART ONE: MIND YOUR MOTIVE Professor Sandel introduces Immanuel Kant, a challenging but influential philosopher. Kant rejects utilitarianism. He argues that each of us has certain fundamental duties and rights that take precedence over maximizing utility. Kant rejects the notion that morality is about calculating consequences. When we act out of duty—doing something simply because it is right—only then do our actions have moral worth. Kant gives the example of a shopkeeper who passes up the chance to shortcCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 05: "HIRED GUNS"
PART ONE: HIRED GUNS During the Civil War, men drafted into war had the option of hiring substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sandel asks students whether they consider this policy just. Many do not, arguing that it is unfair to allow the affluent to avoid serving and risking their lives by paying less privileged citizens to fight in their place. This leads to a classroom debate about war and conscription. Is todays voluntary army open to the same objection? Should military service be allocated byCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 04: "THIS LAND IS MY LAND"
PART ONE: THIS LAND IS MY LAND The philosopher John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights so fundamental that no government can ever take them away. These rights—to life, liberty and property—were given to us as human beings in the the state of nature, a time before government and laws were created. According to Locke, our natural rights are governed by the law of nature, known by reason, which says that we can neither give them up nor take them away from anyone else. Sandel wraps up the lectuCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 03: "FREE TO CHOOSE"
PART ONE: FREE TO CHOOSE Sandel introduces the libertarian conception of individual rights, according to which only a minimal state is justified. Libertarians argue that government shouldnt have the power to enact laws that 1) protect people from themselves, such as seat belt laws, 2) impose some peoples moral values on society as a whole, or 3) redistribute income from the rich to the poor. Sandel explains the libertarian notion that redistributive taxation is akin to forced labor with references to BillCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 02: "PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE"
PART ONE: PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis. Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human life. The cases give rise to several objections to the utilitarian logic of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. Should we always give more weight to the happiness of a majority, even if the majority is cruel or ignoble? Is it posCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presentCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
電子產品的故事 The Story of Electronics 中文字幕
《東西的故事》系列影片製作小組繪製，看守台灣協會翻譯、中文字幕建製。 新手機才用了一年多，又要買新的了嗎？是為了搶買最新推出的型號，還是你的手機已經故障連連，要維修比買新的還貴？不論是以上何者，都是被人刻意設計的產品淘汰過程；為了讓人們維持消費，好讓製造商的收入源源不絕，現今許多產品都遭到「計劃過時」（planned obsolescence），也就是故意設計成既不耐用、又不耐修，而且難以升級。要不然就是每隔一段時間就推出外觀、功能都只有些微差距的新型機種，讓我們傻傻地追著「流行」跑。 在「電子產品的故事」中，安妮抽絲剝繭地探討這種「故意設計來丟掉的產品」，從生產到廢棄分別會產生什麼問題，如果我們把玩新 "iPhone" 、"iPod" 、"iPad" 的同時，不希望這些東西在中國、非洲造成毒物污染威脅，甚至在台灣毒害勞工和孩子們，就一起來聽安妮說故事，並加入她的行動吧！Collected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shCollected in alanpoon's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
全球金融風暴強烈來襲，各國經濟陷入嚴重衰退。面對這個自1930年代經濟大蕭條以來最嚴竣的經濟不景氣，政府倉促提出因應對策，要發放829億的消費卷鼓勵消費，更提出4,000億的振興經濟特別遇算案。值此街頭巷尾熱烈討論要如何使用消費卷之際，我們可曾想過，我們的日常消費，帶來了什麼衝擊？政府要振興的經濟，如果仍是過往的「舊經濟」，那人類是否還有未來？ 就讓我們從我們所買的東西，它們的一生，來思考我們所需要的，究竟是什麼經濟？我們所想要的，究竟是什麼樣的未來？請來看看這部已經有數百萬人點閱的影片：「東西的故事」（Story of Stuff），讓美國環保人士安妮‧雷納德（Annie Leonard）來告訴我們事實的真相吧。Collected in alanpoon's videos Jul 8, 2010 -
瓶裝水的故事 The Story of Bottled Water 中文字幕
天氣好熱，進便利商店去買瓶20塊的瓶裝水吧？出外踏青，渴了就向路邊攤販買罐水，多方便啊！只是你知道嗎？這瓶20元的瓶裝水事實上比汽油還貴，從生產到廢棄都會造成環境和人體健康的嚴重危害，而我們自以為丟到回收桶就解決的塑膠瓶，其實已經成為弱勢國家擺脫不了的垃圾夢魘。「多喝水多健康」，但是如果多喝的是瓶裝水，這句話你可要三思！ 1980年代飲料的銷售量成長趨緩，企業為了不停從大眾手中獲取暴利，竟然想出瓶裝水這種產品。喝乾淨的水難道不是人權嗎？為什麼人權必須用錢來買呢？環保鬥士安妮‧雷納德和SOS影片小組再度出擊，揭發「瓶裝水不如自來水」的真相，讓大家明白與其多花冤枉錢，不如呼籲政府好好為自來水把關，才是長久之計。Collected in alanpoon's videos Jul 8, 2010 -
碳交易的故事The Story of Cap and Trade
繼「東西的故事」之後，曾獲選為時代雜誌環保英雄的Annie Leonard團隊又推出「碳交易的故事」，告訴你為何二氧化碳的「總量管制與交易制度」(Cap & Trade)，不能真正解決全球暖化危機，達到節能減碳的目的。政府核配給大型污染源的免費碳權、虛假不實的碳抵減，這由能源交易商與華爾街金融業者搞出來的制度正在浪費人類處理氣候危機所需的寶貴資源 ，與時間...Collected in alanpoon's videos Jul 8, 2010 -
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邁向生態城市系列報導—蛻變中的西雅圖
美國，是全世界溫室氣體排放量最大的國家，但是西雅圖，卻是美國 第一個達到京都議定書溫室氣體減量標準的城市，西雅圖市長甚至串 聯了全美850個城市，共同推動全美市長氣候保護協議。西雅圖如 何邁向節能減碳的生態城，成為全美最適合人居的大城市，又有哪些 值得台灣參考的地方？我們的島節目特別製作「邁向生態城市」系列 報導，看看在這一場對抗全球暖化的城市競賽中Collected in alanpoon's videos Feb 7, 2009
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alanpoon PART ONE: DEBATING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good? Students address this question in a heated debate about same-sex marriage. Should same-sex marriage be legal? Can we settle the matter without discussing the moral permissibility of homosexuality or the purpose of marriage? PART TWO: THE GOOD LIFE Professor Sandel raises two que
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