<p>This is really interesting. Are there other full course videos online from good schools?</p>
<p>D and her roommate took the class. I told her that I had read the article in the paper in that so many kids thought the class had changed their lives. I asked her and her roommie after the class whether they felt changed forever. They chuckled and said no.</p>
<p>Parents: WHERE DID I GO WRONG AS A MOTHER?</p>
<p>“Parents: WHERE DID I GO WRONG AS A MOTHER?”</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>“Well, I’m not. Not even second-born.”</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>funk…first off…not the best screen name I have ever seen…check…ellemenope…for instance…</p>
<p><a href=“http://oyc.yale.edu/[/url]”>http://oyc.yale.edu/</a></p>
<p>My daughter took this course and loved it. Get a load of Sanders Theater - the venue where the course is taught:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
![http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ememhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>Hat…as far as ED goes…</p>
<p>…Episode 7 …A Deal is a DEAL</p>
<p>29:30 to the end …
Actual contracts are not self-sufficient moral instruments. 
It can always be asked, “is it fair…”</p>
<p>[Justice</a> with Michael Sandel - Episode Seven](<a href=“http://justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=14]Justice”>http://justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=14)</p>
<p>Coureur…beautiful theater. Great place to go to class.</p>
<p>dstark, thanks for the link.</p>
<p>You’re welcome. I hope you find a class or two that you enjoy.</p>
<p>“Are there other full course videos online from good schools?”
[Academic</a> Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures](<a href=“http://www.academicearth.org/]Academic”>http://www.academicearth.org/)
[free</a> university lectures - computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry](<a href=“http://www.lecturefox.com/]free”>http://www.lecturefox.com/)
[Free</a> Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm]Free”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm)
[Stanford</a> School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere](<a href=“http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx]Stanford”>http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx)
<a href=“http://ocwconsortium.org/[/url]”>http://ocwconsortium.org/</a></p>
<p>I don’t know…those Sanders Theatre seats looked hard…all wood, not forgiving…</p>
<p>Can someone give me a link to ep 5? All I can find is an excerpt of it. (5 min.) I watched 1-4, and am watching 6, found those without problem, but can’t find 5. Thanks. </p>
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for the audience to practice Kunt’s idea of freedom.</p>
<p>[Justice</a> with Michael Sandel - Episode Five](<a href=“http://www.justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=12]Justice”>http://www.justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=12)</p>
<p>Those Sanders seats are supposed to be like church pews. They’ve acquired leather cushions since my days as a grad students. At the time, you really sat on wood. I’ve been to many, many concerts there; no complaints.</p>
<p>This is quite good. Other very good courses and related video can be found at iTunes U
[Apple</a> - Education - Guided Tour - An Introduction to iTunes U - Large](<a href=“http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html]Apple”>http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html)</p>
<p>I just finished watching all the episodes. And I didn’t have to take any tests or do any homework. Which is a good thing…because I don’t understand Kant… I can’t remember what philosopher thinks what, and I would be in trouble if the class was graded on a curve.</p>
<p>The class used blogs and I guess they were heated. Blogs keep the students involved…so I like blogs. OMG…TAs were involved in the class…</p>
<p>There were many differences of opinions in the class…and there was only one heated personal exchange during the show…and the professor did a great job of calming things down…</p>
<p>The class discussed same sex marriage, the draft, pay…affirmative action…and the discussions were tied into the thoughts of philosophers…like Jeremy Bentham…John Locke, Kant, Aristotle, Rawls…</p>
<p>Where do your loyalties lie…to your parents, family, roommates, classmates, religion, local community, national community, the world at large…and what happens when your loyalties conflict?</p>
<p>Would you turn your brother into the authorites, if your brother was hiding…you knew where he was…and he was accused of murder? Is your loyalty to your brother greater than your loyalty to your community?</p>
<p>Would you turn your roommate in for cheating in a class?</p>
<p>The classes we see are edited versions. Which is good…for my attention span. :)</p>
<p>Anyway, great class. Not too many answers. And there isn’t ever going to be. But that’s ok.</p>
<p>I don’t quite understand Kunt either, like in the past when I read his stuff. (I just remember I STRONGLY disagree with him in his concept of morality, and this disagreement is reinforced by watching this course.) I also have some trouble understanding some of Locke’s points. I’m half way done and I’m really intrigued by the quizzes they mentioned. Do you know how to get the quizzes? Can we do the quiz w/o being humiliated? (i.e., nobody can see my score?) :D</p>
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<p>Anyone else bothered by this sequence? Sandwiched between eating a worm and having a front tooth pulled is “living on a farm in Kansas”? Not elitist AT ALL?</p>
<p>Of course you can rank “living on a farm in Kansas” as “most desirable of all the undesirable choices”, but the fact that it’s even on the list plants the notion in students’ minds that “living on a farm in Kansas” ranks right up there with amputation of toes.</p>
<p>And “pink toes”? What if your toes are BROWN or any other color skin comes in?</p>
<p>This is all okay with you?</p>
<p>^Not elitist. Merely reflecting the fact that the overwhelming majority of students at Harvard, including some who hailed from KS have never been close to a farm.
One of my experiences in grad school, when a lecturer talked about the misery of peasants in China. Student: “If they were so miserable, why didn’t they leave?” Lecturer:" Where do you think they should go?" Student: “couldn’t they go to the countryside?” Lecturer: “Where do you think they’re living?” Student:" Oh…"
In another class of 40-50 students, the instructor asked: “How many of you have lived on or near a farm?” One hand shot up.
A good reason for top colleges to emphasize not just socio-economic diversity but also geographic diversity. Low income students often come from inner-cities rather than rural backgrounds.</p>
<p>I think you just sort of proved my point, marite.</p>
<p>“Living on a farm in Kansas for the rest of your life” is just a way of asking for how much you would sell your freedom to make choices, even for the sake a relatively pleasant life.</p>
<p>If I could take regular holidays and trips to the city, i.e. live like a normal farmer, maybe $5 million.</p>
<p>How much money would you want to live in maximum security federal prison for the rest of your life? Even for $100 billion, which you could use to support all sorts of good deeds, I don’t think many people would take it.</p>
<p>How much to live in an inner city ghetto? For me, a lot more than $5 million.</p>
<p>Is it elitist to come from an inner-city neighborhood? News to me, and to the many students who are attending Harvard on free rides.</p>
<p>But I agree with sorghum. It is about choices.</p>