Sandel in his book discusses right away a list of things that people can buy that seem downright appalling. Some such examples are nicer jail cells, to hunt endangered animals, and paying the homeless to stand in line for lobbyists. It interests readers right away as then he goes into how this relates to the masses. Some things that he discusses that people can’t really buy is prestige. He talks about in depth about the Nobel Peace Prize and the MLB’s MVP awards.
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He is very enthusiastic and a powerful speaker, but he needs to step away from his one track through process.
All together Sandel puts together a well-structured argument. Though reflecting upon it, it lacks a deeper cultural understanding. Though his focus is of Americans and communitarianism, it can’t be forgotten that this country is built off the traditions and values of a variety of people no matter how white washed it has been. In general this has been a common mistake for a lot of philosophers that we read about, but Sandel is the most modern and should be critiqued more for not looking into this factor. Many social movements have been at play to recognize the diversity in this country and he seems not be paying much attention from what I have read of him.
Michael Sandel wrote the book “What Money can’t Buy” and it a truly powerful book for his argument for Communitarianism. It has both its strengths and weakness. Though in the end, it lacks a multi-perspective consider his ideas which I believe to be a huge weakness and makes his argument much