Justice What's the Right Thing to Do?

The basic premise is like, what you see as just and how you define what justice is. If you can answer that question, it could tell me where you're probably going to land historically and politically.

Like for example, if you think just means the greatest good for all. So everybody.

If you're like, no, justice means leave me alone to figure out how I want to make things happen. It is unjust for you to limit my liberties.

Well, that's like libertarian and moving in that area. We're like, justice means leave me alone.

You don't get to tell me how to do things. But if you're like, justice means there is a right way to do stuff.

This is a good one.

The basic premise is like, what you see as just and how you define what justice is. If you can answer that question, it could tell me where you're probably going to land historically and politically.

If you think just means the greatest good for all. So everybody.

If you're like, no, justice means leave me alone to figure out how I want to make things happen. It is unjust for you to limit my liberties.

But if you're like, justice means there is a right way to do stuff. And that right way, we all need to fall in line. And that's more a conservative lean.

This is a good one. And it's a complete tangent knowing that you have 45 more pages to read, but it is important to know like what he talked about.

The basic premise is like, what you see as just and how you define what justice is.

If you can answer that question, it could tell me where you're probably going to land historically and politically.

I'm excited about Pre-Barrar's book Justice that's coming out this week.

The book presents itself on the cover though, as a philosophical examination of the concept of justice. It has dozens of thought experiments, dozens of real world examples from the realm of politics.

And the goal seems to be at first to get people thinking about what we mean when we talk about protecting justice and what criteria we use for determining what the right thing to do is.

And what Sandel very quickly lays out is that there've been three primary ways of thinking about justice throughout the history of philosophy, three different teams, if you will.

You have one team utilitarianism, the greatest happiness for the greatest number or more accurately utility. Two, you have team libertarianism where justice is seen as what maximizes people's individual freedom.

And three, you have team virtue ethics where a just society is one where people recognize the type of society that they want to live in and then take steps to cultivate the kind of virtues in the citizens that would help produce that kind of society.

And at the time, it was the largest lecture class at Harvard. I think like over a thousand students. And so this is, I think, his latest book came out in 2020, The Tyranny of Merit. What's become of the common good?

Then I took two years to finish The Justice Book, which is coming out this month. There are a bunch of pre-order bonuses you can grab at dailystoic.com slash justice.

I would love for you to read that book.

That's actually something I talk about in the Justice book, which by the way, you can pre-order now at dailystoic.com.

I talk about this in the afterward of the Justice Book that I'm doing now.

And I talk about this in the in Right Thing Right Now, the third book in the Virtue Series, The Justice Book, which is coming out in June. You can pre-order that now everywhere, of course.

Well, I have a story in the Justice book that I was going to put in the Discipline book because I think it's interesting how interrelated these things are.

So I have a story in the Justice book that on one level seems like a discipline idea, but it's actually a justice thing.

The Justice Book coming out in June.

I'm obviously about halfway, a little past halfway done on this Vergey series. Justice book is coming out soon and grab that at dailystoke.com slash justice but the wisdom book is now underway. I'm writing that.

Tristo...recommended this book on justice because he knows the next book in the four book series I'm working on is about justice and there's a lot of stuff so when I read I've shown my methodology before but I take a lot of notes I fold pages so this one was really good I got some stories you'll probably see in a future book

But as I tell him at the beginning of the episode, I've been reading quite a bit about Jimmy Carter who is a character a little bit in the discipline book, very much a character in the Justice Book.

One of the most galling features of meritocratic hubris is its credentialism.

If my book's the one to begin with is my book, Justice, What's the Right Thing to Do?, which actually is based on the course you took.