Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

Why HN readers recommended it

One of the most frequently recommended online lecture series on HN, praised for giving people vocabulary to examine ethical positions and for Sandel's skilled teaching.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Harvard University

Topic

moral philosophy

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• It's like asking what makes 5 greater than 5. Humans are all significant simply because they have rational minds and are rational beings. A human being cannot impose on others a value or worthiness, because we are rational beings and have independent minds. As you …

• Be well versed in genetics / molecular biology! - If I had the time to finish school, I'd double in biology / math or CS. Man will that be a killer combo when that kid is 30. It feels like biotech is where computing was …

• It has been over a year and I haven't finished it yet, but I find it the most interesting. It's Harvard's philosophy course [1] Also, intro to comp sci by Harvard's open courseware. Without these, I might've dropped out of comp sci in my second …