Lectures tagged "Jeremy Bentham"

Putting a Price Tag on Life / How to Measure Pleasure
Putting a Price Tag on Life / How to Measure Pleasure
Michael Sandel
September 20, 2009
00:55:09
Lecture Three: "Putting a Price Tag on Life" Jeremy Bentham's late 18th century Utilitarian theory -- summed up as "the greatest good for the greatest number" -- is often used today under the name of "cost-benefit analysis." Sandel presents some contemporary examples where corporations used this th
The Moral Side of Murder / The Case for Cannibalism
Michael Sandel
September 13, 2009
00:54:56
Lecture One: "The Moral Side of Murder" If you had to choose between killing one person or five, what would you do? What's the right thing to do?