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"Michael Sandel embodies our vision for the Commonwealth Humanities Lecture. His ideas have sharpened and refined the public discourse in Massachusetts, and his teaching has shaped the way future civic leaders will tackle tomorrow's challenges," said Ian Bowles, President & CEO of MassINC.
Sandel's publications include Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996) Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1997) and Liberalism and Its Critics (ed., Basil Blackwell, 1984). His writings have also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and The New Republic. "We are so pleased to be able to inaugurate the Commonwealth Humanities Lecture with a scholar of the caliber of Michael Sandel," said David Tebaldi, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. "His insights into the workings of democracy are profound, his writings are lucid and accessible, and he is a famously brilliant lecturer." "Michael Sandel embodies our vision for the Commonwealth Humanities Lecture. His ideas have sharpened and refined the public discourse in Massachusetts, and his teaching has shaped the way future civic leaders will tackle tomorrow's challenges," said Ian Bowles, President & CEO of MassINC. To read "Are We Still a Commonwealth?" as published in the Fall 2004 issue of the MassHumanities publication, download the pdf file here. |
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Commonwealth Humanities Lecture 2004
The first annual Commonwealth Humanities Lecture was delivered on June 10, 2004 by Michael J. Sandel, Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. Professor Sandel's talk was entitled "Are We Still a Commonwealth? Markets, Morals and Civic Life."