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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Summary of Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter I: The Allure of the Ideal: Orienting the Quest for Justice
1: Orienting to Utopia
1.1: Beyond the Contemporary Debate and Its Categories
1.2: Of Paradise
1.3: Climbing
1.4: Dreaming
1.5: Recommending—Rescuing Justice from Uselessness
2: Social Realizations and the Ideal
2.1: Perfect Principle Conformity and Ideal Societies
2.2: Justice and Its Social Realization
2.3: How Well Justified Are Our Principles of Justice?
3: Modeling the Ideal (and Nonideal)
3.1: Setting the Constraints Regulating Coherent Social Worlds (One Sense of Feasibility)
3.2: The Aim of Ideal Theory
3.3: Abstraction and Idealization
4: Two Conditions for Ideal Theory
Chapter II: The Elusive Ideal: Searching under a Single Perspective
1: Perspectives on Justice
1.1: Evaluative Perspectives and the Social Realizations Condition
1.2: Meaningful Structures and the Orientation Condition
1.3: Why Not Feasibility?
2: Rugged Landscape Models of Ideal Justice
2.1: Smooth v. Rugged Optimization
2.2: How Rugged? High-Dimensional Landscapes and the Social Realizations Condition
2.3: How Rugged? Low-Dimensional Landscapes the Orientation Condition
2.4: Ideal Theory: Rugged, but Not Too Rugged, Landscapes
3: The Neighborhood Constraint and the Ideal
3.1: Rawls’s Idea of a Neighborhood
3.2: The Social Worlds We Know Best
3.3: The Neighborhood Constraint and the Ideal
3.4: Progressive v. Wandering Utopianism
4: Increasing Knowledge of the Landscape and Expanding the Neighborhood
4.1: Experiments in Just Social Worlds
4.2: Improving Predictions: Diversity within, and the Seeds of It between, Perspectives
4.3: Introducing Explicit Perspectival Diversity
5: The Limits of Like-Mindedness
Chapter III: The Fractured Ideal: Searching with Diverse Perspectives
1: Attaining the Ideal through Perspectival Diversity
1.1: From Full to Partial Normalization
1.2: Diversity of Meaningful Structures and Finding the Ideal
1.3: The Hong-Page Theorem
2: Dilemmas of Diversity
2.1: The Neighborhood Constraint (Again)
2.2: The Theorem and Actual Politics
2.3: The Utopia Is at Hand Theorem
2.4: The Interdependence of the Elements of a Perspective on the Ideal
2.5: The Fundamental Diversity Dilemma
3: The Benefits of Diversity
3.1: The Fundamental Diversity Insight
3.2: The Deep Insight of Hong and Page’s Analysis
3.3: Modular Problems
3.4: Recombination
3.5: Improving Predictions
4: Escaping the Tyranny of the Ideal
4.1: The Tyranny of The Choice
4.2: From Normalization to Deep Diversity
4.3: A Liberal Order of Republican Communities?
Chapter IV: The Nonideal: The Open Society
1: Justice without Normalization?
1.1: Normalization and Determinate Justice
1.2: Sen’s Partial Normalization Theory
1.3: Muldoon’s Nonnormalized Contract
1.4: Not All Liberal Justice Is Fit for the Open Society
2: An Artificial, Open, Public Social World
2.1: On Creating a Public Social World
2.2: Polycentrism
2.3: Liberty, Prohibitions, and Searching
2.4: Reducing Complexity through Jurisdictions
2.5: Markets
2.6: The Moral and Political Constitutions
3: Rules We Can Live With
3.1: On Choosing without Agreeing on the Best
3.2: The Socially Eligible Set
3.3: Abandoning the Optimizing Stance
3.4: The Social Space of the Open Society
4: Imperfect Coordination on the Moral Constitution
4.1: Coordination as Diversity Reducing
4.2: The Changing Moral Constitution
4.3: How Diversity Maintains the Open Society
4.4: The Perspectives of Reform and Order
Chapter V: Advancing from the Citadel
1: Recounting the Journey
2: Adieu to the Well-Ordered Society
3: The Citadel of the Ideal
Appendix A. On Measuring Similarity
Appendix B. On Predictive Diversity
Works Cited
Index
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