Tyranny of the Ideal (eBook)

Justice in a Diverse Society

Gerald Gaus (Autor)

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2016
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8104-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Gerald Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His books include The Order of Public Reason and Justificatory Liberalism.

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In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice-essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years-needs to change.Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, Gaus points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society-with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives-have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. Gaus defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be.Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, The Tyranny of the Ideal rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 11 line illus. 11 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Almost surely • Amartya Sen • Analogy • Approximation • A Theory of Justice • Big O notation • Categorization • Community of inquiry • Comparative Advantage • Consideration • Cooperation • Criticism • Decision-Making • Deliberation • Deontological Ethics • Dimension • distributive justice • Diverse Society • Diversity • Dystopia • Economics • egalitarianism • Emergence • Epistemology • Equal Opportunity • estimation • ethics • Evaluation • evaluative perspectives • evaluative standards • free market fairness • full normalization • Global Optimization • Holism • Ideal • idealization • ideal justice • ideal theory • Ideology • Institution • interdependence • Iteration • John Rawls • John Stuart Mill • Justice • Justice as Fairness • just society • liberal diversity • liberal framework • Liberalism • Liberty • local optimum • Looking Backward • mapping function • Marxism • moral constitution • moral ideals • Morality • moral responsibility • Natural and legal rights • normative • Normative Theory • Norm (social) • On Justice • Open Society • Opportunism • opportunity cost • optimization problem • Original Position • Pairwise comparison • partial normalization • Philosopher • Philosophy • Political Economy • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Political reform • Political Science • Politics • possible world • Prediction • Predictive Modelling • prima facie • Principle • Probability • Public Choice • public reason • Ranking (information retrieval) • Rationality • reason • Requirement • Responsibility • result • rights • Selfishness • Social Choice Theory • Social Contract • Social fact • Social Structure • Social Theory • social words • State of affairs (sociology) • Suggestion • The Idea of Justice • The Open Society and Its Enemies • Theorem • theory • The Pursuit of Justice • Thought • Trade-off • Uncertainty • Utilitarianism • Utopia • utopian-ideal theory • utopian theory • Value (ethics) • Veil of Ignorance • weighting • Welfare State • well-ordered society • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8104-8 / 1400881048
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8104-8 / 9781400881048