Summary Of Michael Sandel's Justice

In the book Justice, by Michael Sandel, he explained that Aristotle’s moral theoryrevolves around these two statements, “Justice is teleological. Defining rights requires us tofigure out the telos (the purpose, end, or essential nature) of the social practice in question.Justice is honorific. To reason about the telos of a practice-or to argue about it- is, at least in part,to reason or argue about what virtues it should honor and reward.” Sandel describes acheerleader named Callie that had cerebral palsy and she would go back and forth on herwheelchair and the crowd would get so excited and full of school spirit. Well at the end of theyear she got kicked off the team because some individuals felt as though it wasn’t fair that shedidn’t have to have the same tryout the others girls had. …show more content…
Aristotle states that, “Justice means giving people what they deserve, giving each personhis or her due.” Which means that if you are the best at something, then you deserve the best. Ifyou can play the flute music better than anyone else, then you deserve to get the best flutebecause you play the best music with it. When talking about politics, Aristotle feels very stronglyabout the fact that politics are supposed to form good citizens and to cultivate good character.Politics is not supposed to be something we envy talking about, it should be a positive matter.“The purpose of politics is nothing less than to enable people to develop their distinctive