Michael Sandel Quotes on Virtue
Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher, professor at Harvard University, and one of the most widely read public philosophers of our time. This page collects quotes attributed to Michael Sandel on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“We cannot reason our way to justice without reasoning together about the good.”
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“Some things money should not buy.”
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“Justice is not just about the right way to distribute things; it is about the right way to value them.”
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“Michael J. Sandel, "Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration: Abortion and Homosexuality" (1989)”
Admittedly, the tendency to bracket substantive moral questions makes it difficult to argue for toleration in the language of the good. Defining privacy rights by defending the practices privacy protects seems either reckless or quaint; reckless because it rests so much on moral argument, quaint because it recalls the traditional view that ties the case for privacy to the merits of the conduct pri -
“To put the point another way, the republican sees liberty as internally connected to self-government and the civic virtues that sustain it.”
Democracy's Discontent(1996) | Chap. 2. Rights and the Neutral States