迈克尔·桑德尔

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迈克尔·桑德尔

1953年生

初步了解有意简化——人物介绍讲得更多

我们不是不受牵绊的个人，而是共同体的成员，有些东西——如公民生活、尊严和我们的孩子——不应当用来出售。

定位

政治哲学与伦理学（20—21世纪） · 北美 · 政治与法, 伦理学, 社会与历史

哈佛的政治哲学家，其课程“公正”触及了数百万人：我们不是在无知之幕后做选择的“不受羁绊的自我”，而是共同体的成员——而且有些东西不应当拿来出售。

核心思想

对不受羁绊的自我的批判
公民共和主义
市场的道德限度
精英的暴政

老师: 查尔斯·泰勒

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影响

受影响于 2

亚里士多德

受其影响
Sandel drew on Aristotle’s teleological reasoning – justice as allocating goods by their purpose – to question liberal neutrality (Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, 2009). M. J. Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (2009); The Case against Perfection (2007)
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亚里士多德 › 公元前384—前322年
查尔斯·泰勒师从

师从
Sandel studied at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar and wrote his DPhil under Charles Taylor (1981); it grew into Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). Berggruen Institute, laureate biography of M. Sandel; M. J. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982)
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查尔斯·泰勒 › 1931年生

批评

批评了 3

伊曼努尔·康德

批评了
Sandel criticised the Kantian self prior to its ends, the basis of deontological liberalism, as an ‘unencumbered self’ (‘The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self’, 1984). M. J. Sandel, “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self”, Political Theory 12 (1984); Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982)
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伊曼努尔·康德 › 1724–1804
弗朗西斯·高尔顿

批评了
Sandel criticised Galton’s eugenics as a drive to mastery that ignores the giftedness of life, a problem inherited by ‘liberal eugenics’ (The Case against Perfection, 2007). M. J. Sandel, The Case against Perfection (2007), ch. 4 “Eugenics”
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弗朗西斯·高尔顿 › 1822–1911
约翰·罗尔斯

批评了
Sandel argued that Rawls presupposes an ‘unencumbered self’ choosing its ends prior to attachments, which cannot account for community (Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, 1982). M. J. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982; 2nd ed. 1998)
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约翰·罗尔斯 › 1921–2002

作品

1982自由主义与正义的局限（Liberalism and the Limits of Justice）
反对罗尔斯：无知之幕后的自我是一个“无负荷的自我”，被剥夺了那些部分构成我们之为我们的依恋与共同体——社群主义批判自由主义的奠基之作。
2020精英的傲慢（The Tyranny of Merit）
精英统治使成功者傲慢，使落后者蒙羞；桑德尔呼吁尊重劳动的尊严，推行追求共同善的政治。

立场

“Liberalism and the Limits of Justice” made Sandel a leading critic of Rawls and is counted among the founding texts of communitarianism, a label he himself has resisted. Rawls’s theory, he argued, presupposes an “unencumbered self” that chooses its ends from behind a veil of ignorance, prior to all attachments; but we are “encumbered” selves, partly constituted by the families, communities and traditions to which we belong, and some obligations – of solidarity and membership – are not chosen. Liberal neutrality towards conceptions of the good life is therefore neither possible nor desirable: questions of justice cannot be settled without arguing about what is worth honouring. “Democracy’s Discontent” defended the civic republican tradition of self-government against a merely procedural liberalism. Later books bring this to public life: “The Case against Perfection” argues against genetic enhancement in the name of the “giftedness” of life, “What Money Can’t Buy” warns that markets corrupt goods such as education, health and citizenship, and “The Tyranny of Merit” argues that meritocracy breeds hubris among the winners and humiliation among those left behind.

生平与背景

Michael Sandel (born 1953 in Minneapolis) grew up there and in Los Angeles, studied politics at Brandeis University and went to Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he wrote his doctorate under Charles Taylor. He has taught at Harvard since 1980 and is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government. His lecture course “Justice” was the first Harvard course made freely available online and on television and has been watched by tens of millions of people around the world. He served on President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics, and he received the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2018 and the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture in 2025.