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Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher and a political philosophy professor at Harvard University. His course “Justice” is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the “most influential foreign figure of the year.” . He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.

✵ 5. March 1953
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“A public philosophy is an elusive thing, for it is constantly before our eyes.”

Source: Democracy's Discontent, 1998, Chapter 1.

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