Xanthippa's Chamberpot

This is an excellent little talk – as most TED talks are!

I came across Michael Sandel just a few weeks ago, when my loving spouse began listening to his Philosophy lectures on ‘Justice’ on YouTube.  We both liked the lectures so much, we routed them to our TV and watched the whole series over the holidays – with frequent pauses to discuss the points he was making.

Most enjoyable!

This is also the very first introduction I have ever had to formal philosophy:  all my previous exposure was just by thinking about things and talking with others about it.  So, in this way, it was to a great degree filling some holes in the historic context of how these ideas evolved through the society.

It also demonstrated to my satisfaction that, at least according to the labels on ideas in this course, I may indeed be a bit of a libertarian…