Beyond Legacy Ideas: Towards a New Normative Design for Freedom, Justice, and Human Flourishing

Mostly, instinct mimics intelligence in the social realm. Intelligence in the socio-political domain rarely materialises. Instincts, unchecked, drive people toward regression. A jungle always lurks behind, where might is right and violence is the only means of mediation. If global systems are taken into account, groundbreaking ideas with embedded appeal and capable of bringing an apparent upgrade are the rarest of the rare, occurring only on certain occasions in human history. While the world has made unbelievable advances in technology, there is hardly a new thought for upgrading human lives. Legacy ideas are apparently in an exhausted state. A new doctrinal design is needed, one that accommodates the profound changes in people’s lives, reconciles the contrarian pulls of conventional morality with the demands of new lifestyles, seizes unfolding opportunities, and simultaneously addresses the hazards and threats that accompany ultra-phenomenal transformations.

Niraj Kumar Jha