Justice By Michael Sandel Analysis

In the book Justices: What is The Right Thing to Do? Michael Sandel continues to address alternative theories of justices from various scholars in the later chapters of the book. Since the ancient times, morality and law are interdependent and mutual influence to each other. Moral is a kind of social ideology, where behavior of norms comes from the social awareness, regulation, education, and evaluation. On the other hand, law is developed or recognized by the government, and it is a guarantee force to implemented provisions of the rights and obligations for people as well as general binding of the public affairs. According to Sandel, ethics and law are from two different aspects of people’s behaviors just like two wings for the birds; they are inseparable. However, when people are facing conflicts between morality and law, how to choose, it is a difficult decision. Sandel introduces a moral and political philosopher, John Rawls, …show more content…
We acknowledge that most businesses and schools promote diversity because they think that different cultural background could bring innovation, improvement, and cultural values. Even though diversity can expand our moral horizon, it is not acceptable to favor a group because of its ethnicity. For example, when the cases of affirmative action make a difference in college application, it undermines many students hard work just because they are parts of majority. According to the Sandel’s example in the book, when a college student Cheryl Hopwood applied for University of Texas Law School with a grade point average of 3.8 and score 83 percentiles on the law school admission test, she was not admitted. Hopwood, who is white, thought her rejection was unfair because her overall performance was higher than other admitted applicants who were African American or Mexican American. This case shows the unfairness of affirmative action brings to the majority