Michael Sandel’s Justice is a phenomenon — and not just because it has brought thoughtful discussion of our society to the mainstream. Shaped as a course at Harvard, extended to the Internet and packaged as a bestselling book, Sandel has created a global conversation about the conventional wisdoms that underpin society — and often hold it back. The philosopher will be on the edge of Capitol Hill Monday night for a free lecture at 16th and Union’s Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Here are the details from Elliott Bay Book Company:

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Thanks tipper Tom for the note. 

MICHAEL J. SANDEL at Temple De Hirsch Sinai
Start: 01/31/2011 7:00 pm

Presented by FRANCES & HOWARD KELLER, the KELLER FAMILY LECTURE SERIES, and TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI. What can the current financial crisis teach about the morals and values of society? Harvard professor Michael Sandel, author of the acclaimed, bestselling Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), challenges us to examine the moral and ethical assumptions that underlie the hotly debated economic, political, and social issues of the day. His previous books include Democracy’s Discontent, The Case Against Perfection, and Public Philosophy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New York Times, and her served from 2002 to 2005 on the President’s Council on Bioethics. Free admission, no tickets needed. Temple de Hirsch Sinai is at 1441 Sixteenth Avenue, at 16th and Union.