Michael Sandel Fronteiras do Pensamento
28 de maio 2014
Por Danielle Denny
There is a deep frustration with
politics: don't address the questions right. People want politics to be about
big things. About ethics.
2 big questions:
Corruption
Role of money in our society
Close connection between both
2% GDP = 50 billion = lost
to corruption in Brazil = drain resources from public services
corruption of values = habits of
favoring things in a utilitarian way
very few things that money cant
buy. Sign of the times. Quiet revolution. We drifted to market society (a way
of life). We are not a market economy (an instrument only) any more.
Inequality does matter in a market
society. Money can assure determine political voice, security, health … and
other civil rights. Pricing non material goods rotten the values.
Goods money cant buy = money
destroys the good
Friendship
Nobel prize = honorific prize
Kidney and organs of any kinds =
some economists say they should be sold in a free market. But a bought kidney
would work (different of friendship or prize)
Market are not neutral
instruments. In non material goods. Politics, education, wealth, … it corrupts
the good itself and make a crowd out effect. People who wold donate blood would
not it it is payed.
What can we do about it. Engage in
reason public debate about meanings. We hesitate to engage in ethical values
discussions in public. Because they evolve debating. Controversies. But this
hesitation leads to emptiness in public discourse. We need to develop the art
of listening the principals, that lie behind the disagreements. Reasoning
together don’t lead to agreement but lead to a healthy democracy.
Learning with one another, we
must.
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