Toward a Just Society: Indicators for the Future
摘要
The objective of the final chapter is to develop a normative and philosophical framework that can be used to develop justice-orientated indicators that will enable future societies. It leavens the technocratic and perfectionist paradigms and reconceives justice as the open-ended, anticipatory, ethically enfolded aspiration—one that cannot be reduced to fixed or fixed measures. Based on critical theories, democratic epistemologies, and pluralist ethics, indicators hold the promise of enabling transformative change when developed as purposes of moral reflection, participating deliberation, and relational accountability as discussed through the chapter. It questions the ontological, the epistemological, and the political aspects of measurement by asserting that indicators should be aimed at dignity, diversity and social responsibility, as opposed to centralized management or ideological stasis. Justice metrics, when designed in a critical and ethically attentive way, can serve as tools of moral imagination and civic pedagogy—tendentiously pointing toward inclusive, dialogical, and sustainable futures of societies. By this, the chapter readies a philosophical arena of measurable moral futures without decreasing justice to be a measurable conclusion.