The Concept of Ideal Society

Description and understanding of an ideal society are two contentious issues due to the divergent views put forward by scholars. While some sociologists focus on social components defining a perfect community, political scientists and economists underpin the significance of sociopolitical elements. Thus, an ideal society incorporates socioeconomic and political factors that drive and sustain life.

1. Different scholars present a diverse interpretation of an ideal society based on philosophical or sociological components. They emphasize the elements making the world a better place for the benefit of all individuals.
2. Literature reviews identify the motivations behind the establishment of an ideal society. For instance, Williams (2017) posits that gender issues shape the creation of a perfect community in which social and political systems distinguish gendered roles.

In Confucian tradition, an ideal society is founded on morality. A ‘moral community’ integrates individual desires and compels people to observe restraints.

1. Innate honorable emotions confine individual desires in a perfect social setting. People abide by community regulations and collaborate to realize the public good.
2. Trust is a fundamental principle which determines decency and encourages people to uphold social checks. According to Young-jin and Haeng-Hoon (2016), Confucius alludes that trust is the primary requirement for establishing and preserving a moral society, although economic and military power is essential.
3. The central building blocks for an ideal society include the ability to promote goodness and abolish wickedness. Young-jin and Haeng-Hoon (2016) expound that individuals and rulers in a perfect community set a good example by confining personal longings to stimulate inborn moral sensations.
4. Thus, members control their innate desires and moral emotions by complying with the social order. Furthermore, they contribute to the realization of public virtues and development of a life community. In this regard, people live to realize their nature completely and create a harmonious universe.

An ideal society upholds oneness and motivates people to acquire absolute knowledge. In this way, community members can identify social subjugation drivers and comprehend the void associated with the preeminence of birthrights claimed by the high castes.

1. Swami Vivekananda is a prominent scholar who advanced the philosophy of oneness and absolute knowledge, mainly in India. Rayand Sethy (2020) postulate that Vivekananda envisions a perfect society based on caste. Although class is perceived as a political structure, Vivekananda represents it from a social custom perspective.
2. An ideal community must outgrow political institutions and form a single caste by raising those in the lower levels to the highest category. In this regard, Rayand Sethy (2020) allude that all societal orders must overcome limitations observed in each and preserve inherent benefits.
3. Absolute knowledge is the most fundamental tool needed to eliminate caste obstacles since it is a means to level up to class distinctions. People from different regions, such as Europe and India, must learn to create ideal humanity. An educated society promotes the spirit of parity and freedom.

An ideal society must maintain order in its sociopolitical systems. In this regard, a well-ordered culture includes accepting systematic principles of justice, which regulate societal institutions.

1. John Rawls advances the idea of an ideal society based on justice and fairness. Community members enjoy freedoms endowed by the constitution or inherent privileges attributed to divine forces (Fanton, 2020). A just and fair society promotes impartiality and eliminates any discrimination against its community.
2. Rawls’ philosophy exemplifies that an ideal society is based on social unity, public scrutiny, and autonomy. Communal harmony prevails when civic accord and people collaborate to advance fairness; politics is considered a shared initiative instead of competition (Fanton, 2020). Consequently, individuals realize sovereignty when they comply with rules and institutions.
3. An ideal society must develop and uphold justice founded on a specific moral element, which regulates choices and alternatives concerning the distribution of rights and opportunities. It should also manage socioeconomic and political institutions.

In conclusion, an ideal society must promote social justice and protect constitutional and inherent rights. Community members will enjoy life without infringing on others’ privileges.

1. A perfect culture would be one in which people can get whatever they wish. Although it is difficult to realize an unlimited degree of selection, community members can strive to find the best possible line of fit to accommodate freedom of choice. They can set parameters at an average based on individual ideals. The approach might not give a perfect society, but it would not be unsuitable for everyone.
2. An ideal society would acknowledge individuals’ strengths and appreciate their weaknesses. This way, it would not judge people irrespective of their socioeconomic or political standards. Community members should live the best life in a perfect social order rather than being punished. A rights-based communal system would be preferred instead of deviating from normalized community standards.
3. An ideal society should cultivate knowledge to help people identify and resolve daily life issues instead of providing one-time solutions. Only an educated community is able to develop an autonomous system based on progressive social, economic and political principles.

References

Fanton, M. (2020). Rawls’s point of view: A systematic reading of justice as fairness. Brazilian Political Science Review, 14(2).

Kogelmann, B. (2017). Justice, diversity, and the well-ordered society. The Philosophical Quarterly, 67(269), 663–684.

Ray, P., K., & Sethy, M., P. (2020). Swami Vivekananda: His philosophy and vision on ideal society. Asiatic Society for Social Science Research Journal, 2(1), 45-57. Web.

Williams, S. J. (2017). Personal prefigurative politics: Cooking up an ideal society in the woman’s temperance and woman’s suffrage movements, 1870–1920. The Sociological Quarterly, 58(1), 72-90. Web.

Young-jin, C., & Haeng-Hoon, L. (2016). The Confucian vision of an ideal society arising out of moral emotions, with a focus on the sishu Daquan. Philosophy East and West, 66(2), 394-417. Web.