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Who Should Have Power?
Compare influential arguments about justice, authority, liberty, democracy, markets, and the relationship between individuals and the state.
Books in this collection
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel’s Justice asks how to decide what people owe one another when welfare, freedom, equality, desert, virtue, and loyalty collide. Moving through competing theories and hard cases, it shows why fair institutions require public reasoning about human purposes and the common good, not only calculation or choice.
The Republic
Plato’s Republic asks whether justice is valuable in itself or only for its rewards. By building a model city and comparing it with a soul ruled by reason, it examines education, philosopher-rule, regime failure, pleasure, art, and the soul’s fate. Its value lies in clarifying how political arrangements and inner character shape one another.
