title: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books
author: Charles R. Kesler
description: <span><span><span>An excellent sampling of the CRBs first decade.</span></span></span> (<i>The Weekly Standard</i>)<br /><br /><span><span><span>[This book], like the magazine, shines on its literary quality alone.</span></span></span> (<i>Claremont Review of Books</i>)
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  _Liberalism and the Limits of Justice_ (1982; 2nd ed., 1998)  
   _Liberalism and Its Critics_ , editor (1984)  
   _Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy_ (1996)  
   _Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics_ (2005)  
   _The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering_
  (2007)  
   _Justice: A Reader_ , editor (2007)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # JUSTICE
  
  
  WHAT’S  
  THE  
  RIGHT THING  
  TO DO?
  
  
  MICHAEL J. SANDEL
  
  
  FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX  
    
  NEW YORK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **For Kiku, with love**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [**DEDICATION**](dedication.html)
  
  
  [**1\. DOING THE RIGHT THING**](chapter01.html)
  
  
  [**2\. THE GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE / UTILITARIANISM**](chapter02.html)
  
  
  [**3\. DO WE OWN OURSELVES? / LIBERTARIANISM**](chapter03.html)
  
  
  [**4\. HIRED HELP / MARKETS AND MORALS**](chapter04.html)
  
  
  [**5\. WHAT MATTERS IS THE MOTIVE / IMMANUEL KANT**](chapter05.html)
  
  
  [**6\. THE CASE FOR EQ