← Justice · Season 1

A Lesson In Lying/A Deal Is A Deal

S1 · E7 · 25 Oct 2009 · 30 min

Immanuel Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a violation of one’s own dignity. Sandel introduces the modern philosopher, John Rawls, who argues that a fair set of principles would be those principles we would all agree to if we had to choose rules for our society and no one had any unfair bargaining power.