{"id":35919,"date":"2025-10-14T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=35919"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:26:45","slug":"1-million-berggruen-philosophy-prize-awarded-to-michael-sandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=35919","title":{"rendered":"$1 MILLION BERGGRUEN PHILOSOPHY PRIZE AWARDED TO MICHAEL SANDEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>World-renowned philosopher elevates public discourse and illuminates ethical and civic questions of our time<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">LOS ANGELES<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The Berggruen Institute today named political philosopher <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel<\/span> as the 2025 Laureate of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy &amp; Culture. One of the world&#8217;s leading thinkers and public intellectuals, Sandel has profoundly impacted how we think about justice, ethics, markets, and democracy today. The <span class=\"xn-money\">$1 million<\/span> award is given annually to individuals whose ideas shape human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" alt=\"Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Professor Sandel&#8217;s work has left a profound mark on the global intellectual landscape. His critiques of neoliberalism, meritocratic ideology, and populism speak to the most urgent questions of our time,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0said <span class=\"xn-person\">Yuk Hui<\/span>, Chair of the Berggruen Prize Jury. Other jury members include <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger Ames<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Antonio Damasio<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Francis Fukuyama<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Siri Hustvedt<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Carlo Rovelli<\/span>, and Elif Shafak.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of <span class=\"xn-org\">Brandeis University<\/span>, Sandel received his doctorate in 1981 from Balliol College, <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Oxford<\/span>, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar under philosopher <span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Taylor<\/span>. He has had a decades-long career at <span class=\"xn-org\">Harvard University<\/span> where he currently serves as the Anne T. and Robert M. Professor of Government. Notably, his course &#8220;Justice&#8221; was the first to be made freely available online and on television, reaching 40 million viewers. His books have been widely translated and include lauded publications such as <i>Justice: What&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do?<\/i>\u00a0(2009), <i>The Tyranny of Merit <\/i>(2020), and <i>Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters<\/i>, co-authored with Thomas Piketty (2025).<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel&#8217;s<\/span> significant body of work is deserving of the Berggruen Institute&#8217;s lifetime achievement award recognizing intellectual thought of the highest caliber and global impact,&#8221; <\/i>said <span class=\"xn-person\">Nicolas Berggruen<\/span>, Chairman and Founder of the Berggruen Institute. <i>&#8220;Given our world in flux, his illumination of what it means to be a good human and his infusion of ethics and reasoning into public discourse are necessary.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel<\/span> was selected for the Berggruen Prize from hundreds of nominees in the fields of philosophy, social science, economics, human rights, physics, literature, and beyond, and joins an esteemed cohort of Laureates, including <span class=\"xn-person\">Patricia Hill Collins<\/span> (2023), Kojin Karatani (2022), <span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Singer<\/span> (2021), <span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Farmer<\/span> (2020), <span class=\"xn-person\">Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/span> (2019), <span class=\"xn-person\">Martha C. Nussbaum<\/span> (2018), <span class=\"xn-person\">Onora O&#8217;Neill<\/span> (2017), and <span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Taylor<\/span> (2016). Sandel will receive the prize in spring 2026 at a celebration in <span class=\"xn-location\">Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Press contact:<br \/><\/b>Send\/Receive<br \/><a href=\"mailto:office@sendreceive.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">office@sendreceive.eu<\/a><br \/>+49 30 97996370<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600<\/a><br \/>Logo: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>World-renowned philosopher elevates public discourse and illuminates ethical and civic questions of our time<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">LOS ANGELES<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The Berggruen Institute today named political philosopher <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel<\/span> as the 2025 Laureate of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy &amp; Culture. One of the world&#8217;s leading thinkers and public intellectuals, Sandel has profoundly impacted how we think about justice, ethics, markets, and democracy today. The <span class=\"xn-money\">$1 million<\/span> award is given annually to individuals whose ideas shape human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" alt=\"Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>Portrait of Professor Michael Sandel. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Professor Sandel&#8217;s work has left a profound mark on the global intellectual landscape. His critiques of neoliberalism, meritocratic ideology, and populism speak to the most urgent questions of our time,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0said <span class=\"xn-person\">Yuk Hui<\/span>, Chair of the Berggruen Prize Jury. Other jury members include <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger Ames<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Antonio Damasio<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Francis Fukuyama<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Siri Hustvedt<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Carlo Rovelli<\/span>, and Elif Shafak.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of <span class=\"xn-org\">Brandeis University<\/span>, Sandel received his doctorate in 1981 from Balliol College, <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Oxford<\/span>, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar under philosopher <span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Taylor<\/span>. He has had a decades-long career at <span class=\"xn-org\">Harvard University<\/span> where he currently serves as the Anne T. and Robert M. Professor of Government. Notably, his course &#8220;Justice&#8221; was the first to be made freely available online and on television, reaching 40 million viewers. His books have been widely translated and include lauded publications such as <i>Justice: What&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do?<\/i>\u00a0(2009), <i>The Tyranny of Merit <\/i>(2020), and <i>Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters<\/i>, co-authored with Thomas Piketty (2025).<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel&#8217;s<\/span> significant body of work is deserving of the Berggruen Institute&#8217;s lifetime achievement award recognizing intellectual thought of the highest caliber and global impact,&#8221; <\/i>said <span class=\"xn-person\">Nicolas Berggruen<\/span>, Chairman and Founder of the Berggruen Institute. <i>&#8220;Given our world in flux, his illumination of what it means to be a good human and his infusion of ethics and reasoning into public discourse are necessary.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Sandel<\/span> was selected for the Berggruen Prize from hundreds of nominees in the fields of philosophy, social science, economics, human rights, physics, literature, and beyond, and joins an esteemed cohort of Laureates, including <span class=\"xn-person\">Patricia Hill Collins<\/span> (2023), Kojin Karatani (2022), <span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Singer<\/span> (2021), <span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Farmer<\/span> (2020), <span class=\"xn-person\">Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/span> (2019), <span class=\"xn-person\">Martha C. Nussbaum<\/span> (2018), <span class=\"xn-person\">Onora O&#8217;Neill<\/span> (2017), and <span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Taylor<\/span> (2016). Sandel will receive the prize in spring 2026 at a celebration in <span class=\"xn-location\">Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Press contact:<br \/><\/b>Send\/Receive<br \/><a href=\"mailto:office@sendreceive.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">office@sendreceive.eu<\/a><br \/>+49 30 97996370<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793229\/Berggruen_Institute_Prof_Michael_Sandel.jpg?p=medium600<\/a><br \/>Logo: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2793228\/Berggruen_Institute_logo.jpg?p=medium600<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}