Michael Sandel

…letter to Harvard University professor Michael Sandel from professors in the San Jose State University philosophy department, who were being encouraged to use a MOOC taught by Sandel, encapsulated a number of concerns from the academic community. Among these was a concern about the use of videos over in-person lecturing;…

… and the American political theorist Michael Sandel were among the most prominent scholars of this brand of communitarianism. Other political theorists and philosophers who were often cited as communitarians in this sense, or whose work exhibited elements of such communitarian thinking, included Shlomo Avineri, Seyla Benhabib, Avner de-Shalit, Jean Bethke…

Adherents of communitarianism, such as Michael Sandel and Michael Walzer, urged that the shared understanding of a community concerning how it is appropriate to live should outweigh the abstract and putatively impartial requirements of universal justice. Even liberal egalitarians criticized some aspects of Rawls’s theory. Ronald Dworkin, for example, argued…