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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
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
2.1 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
3.5 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
2.3 Liberty, Prohibitions, and Searching
2.4 Reducing Complexity through Jurisdictions
2.6 The Moral and Political Constitutions
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
2 Adieu to the Well-Ordered Society
3 The Citadel of the Ideal
Appendix A. On Measuring Similarity
Appendix B. On Predictive Diversity