Duration of the online course: 11 hours and 1 minutes
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Questions about justice show up everywhere: in headlines, classrooms, workplaces, and everyday choices. This free online course helps you build the kind of moral reasoning that lets you argue clearly, weigh evidence, and reach defensible conclusions even when everyone disagrees about what feels right. Instead of treating ethics as vague opinion, you will learn to examine competing principles of fairness, rights, and responsibility, and to recognize what each approach can explain well and where it can fall short.
You will work through famous thought experiments and real-world controversies that test your intuitions. By asking what we owe to one another, when outcomes should matter most, and when rules or rights must not be crossed, the course trains you to separate emotional reactions from careful judgment. Along the way, you will practice turning complex moral questions into precise claims you can defend, challenge, and refine.
The learning journey connects several major traditions in moral and political philosophy. You will confront the logic of maximizing overall well-being, then compare it with views that place individual liberty at the center of justice. You will explore why people might consent to government, what makes property and taxation legitimate, and how freedom, consent, and coercion shape public policy. You will also grapple with duty-based ethics that asks whether an action could be justified as a universal principle, and what it means to treat people as ends rather than mere means.
To think about fairness in society, you will examine how equality and inequality can be justified, what a fair starting point might require, and why social arrangements are often evaluated by how they affect the least advantaged. From there, you will consider character and civic virtue, asking what a good citizen owes to the community and whether justice is mainly about distributing goods, honoring merit, or sustaining a shared way of life. Finally, you will see why disagreements about rights frequently depend on deeper moral commitments, and why public debate can be both more honest and more productive when those commitments are made explicit.
Interactive exercises reinforce key ideas so you can test your understanding and improve your ability to analyze arguments. By the end, you will be better prepared to write, discuss, and decide with clarity—useful for school, exams, civic life, and any career where strong reasoning and persuasive communication matter.
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
54m
Exercise: In the philosophical dilemma known as the trolley problem, if a trolley is headed towards five workers on the track, which can be diverted to another track where there is one worker, what action should you take?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 02: "PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE"
55m
Exercise: Which principle forms the central basis of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian philosophy?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 03: "FREE TO CHOOSE"
55m
Exercise: According to libertarian philosophy, which type of law or policy is considered unjust because it violates the right to liberty?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 04: "THIS LAND IS MY LAND"
54m
Exercise: According to John Locke, what is the fundamental reason why individuals agree to form a society and establish a government?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 05: "HIRED GUNS"
55m
Exercise: According to Locke, what limits the power of a democratically elected government in taxing its citizens?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 06: "MIND YOUR MOTIVE"
55m
Exercise: What is the supreme principle of morality according to Kant's ethical theory?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 07: "A LESSON IN LYING"
55m
Exercise: Which of the following best captures the principles that underlie Immanuel Kant's moral theory?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 08: "WHATS A FAIR START?"
55m
Exercise: Which principle asserts that social and economic inequalities are permissible only if they work to the benefit of the least well-off members of society?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 10: "THE GOOD CITIZEN"
55m
Exercise: Which of the following best represents Aristotle's view on the concept of distributive justice?
Exercise: What is the central idea of Aristotle's theory of justice?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 10: "THE GOOD CITIZEN"
55m
Exercise: Which of the following best represents Aristotle's view on the concept of distributive justice?
Exercise: What is the central idea of Aristotle's theory of justice?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 11: "THE CLAIMS OF COMMUNITY"
55m
Exercise: On what foundation should moral and political obligations be based according to the communitarian critique of liberal individualism?
Video class: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 12: "DEBATING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE"
55m
Exercise: In debates about justice and rights, is it possible to justify a position without taking a stand on the underlying moral issues?
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Course comments: Philosophy of Justice
Ahmad Abdulrasheed Esan
A system may require temporary sacrifices from individuals, but it cannot impose rules that cause irreversible harm to the core conditions necessary "
Zulfiyaxon Aripova
Thank you
Jenny Van Der walt
Great content, I enjoyed hearing about the reasoning and different approaches. Very good course.
M V S S SASTRY
very knowledgeable and impressed