PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy

Watch this lecture until 24:01. While you watch, ask yourself: how can we establish a just society without arriving at some kind of consensus about what the good is -- in this case, the good for same-sex couples and other members of the moral community? In this lecture, Sandel makes the case that questions of morality and justice cannot be separated from questions about the good. The problem, though, is that all members of a society seldom agree on what the good is. This leads to a discussion of same-sex marriage, which was a hotly contested issue in the United States.