The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society, by Gerald Gaus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0-0691-15880-8

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
Abraham Singer
Keyword(s):  
Princeton University ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Gerald Gaus ◽  
The Ideal

The Tyranny of the Ideal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Gaus
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Inquiry ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Ideal

This book lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. It shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. The book 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, the book 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. The book 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, this book rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.

Advancing from the Citadel

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-250
Author(s):  
Gerald Gaus
Keyword(s):  
Open Society ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter argues that the well-ordered society is a dangerous illusion. The very aim that the ideal theorist cherished, to know justice and just social states as well as possible, requires an open, diverse society, in which innumerable perspectives simultaneously cooperate and compete, share and conflict. In this society there will be a crisscrossing network of communities exploring and refining moral ideals and gaining insights into their own ideals by their interactions with others. In order to be successful and robust, the Open Society must be based on a moral constitution that provides the basis of a practice of responsibility and accountability among a maximally wide array of perspectives, allowing us to reap the fruits of the cooperation and competition that diversity allows.

The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-488
Author(s):  
Andrew Tsz Wan Hung ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Diverse Society ◽  
The Ideal

The Value of a Non-Ideal

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-450
Author(s):  
C. M. Melenovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
Gerald Gaus ◽  
The Ideal

In The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus gives an extended argument on behalf of the “Open Society.” Instead of claiming that it is uniquely best from some privileged moral perspective, he argues for the Open Society by showing why it is acceptable to many perspectives. In this way, Gaus argues for a liberal market-based society in a way that treats deep diversity as a fundamental feature of social life. However, the argument falters at four important points. When taken together, these four problems significantly limit the significance of Gaus’s conclusions.

scholarly journals REKAYASA SOSIAL KOLABORASI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DAN PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL: PRAKSIS DI YAYASAN PERGURUAN SULTAN ISKANDAR MUDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Taat Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Ideal Condition ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Engineering Collaboration ◽  
Educational Foundation ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Real Action ◽  
The Ideal

Banyak variabel kompleks untuk menilai kondisi satu masyarakat (Indonesia), apakah masyarakat dalam keadaan ideal sesuai dengan cita-cita seluruh anggotanya atau tidak. Dua di antara variabel tersebut yakni tampak dari adanya kecenderungan karakter sebagian masyarakat yang mengalami kemunduran dan rentannya permasalahan yang muncul akibat heterogenitas masyarakatnya. Dua persoalan tersebut, alangkah baiknya tidak hanya berhenti sebatas wacana, komoditas pers, atau bahkan komoditas politik. Harus ada praksis yang dikerjakan apabila ingin mengatasinya melalui tindakan-tindakan yang visible dan terukur dalam bentuk aksi nyata. Medium pendidikan (pendidikan karakter) dapat menjadi satu alternatif  terhadap upaya memerangi mundurnya karakter masyarakat dan pendidikan multikultural menjadi medium untuk mengatasi permasalahan karena heterogenitas anggota masyarakatnya. Meskipun di satu pihak, kebhinnekaan masyarakat Indonesia tidak boleh dipersalahkan ketika banyak terjadi konflik, di pihak lain kebhinnekaan harus menjadi potensi agar efektif mempersatukan rakyat yang beranekaragam dan terpencar. Nafas ‘pendidikan karakter’ dan ‘pendidikan multikultural’ selaku conditio sine qua non ini tampak dalam praksis pendidikan di Yayasan Perguruan Sultan Iskandar Muda atau ‘Sekolah Pembauran’ di Medan, Sumatera Utara.Kata kunci: pendidikan karakter, pendidikan multikultural, sekolah pembauran SOCIAL ENGINEERING COLLABORATION OF EDUCATION CHARACTER AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: PRAXIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN SULTAN ISKANDAR YOUNGAbstractThere are many complex variables to assess the condition of the society (Indonesia), whether a society has the ideal condition based on the visions of its members or not. Two of the variables include the tendency of some people whose character has experienced a setback and the vulnerability of problems that arise due to the heterogeneity of the community. These two issues should not become a plan, a news commodity, or even a political commodity only. There must be a praxis that is performed to solve the problems through visible and measurable actions in the form of real action. A medium of education (character education) can be an alternative to fight against the decadence of the character of the community and multicultural education can be a medium to overcome the problems due to the heterogeneity of the community members. The diversity of the Indonesian society should not be blamed when a conflict occurs but it should be able to effectively unite the diverse society. The core of 'character education' and 'multicultural education' as the conditio sine qua non can be seen from the praxis of education at Sultan Iskandar Muda foundation or 'Sekolah Pembauran' in Medan, North Sumatra.Keywords: character education, multicultural education, sekolah pembauran

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