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The Tyranny of the Ideal - Justice in a Diverse Society (Hardcover)
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The Tyranny of the Ideal - Justice in a Diverse Society (Hardcover)
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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.
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