In practice, people mean “eutopia” when they say “utopia”, and in a Wittgensteinian sense ‘meaning is use’, so changing language won’t actually result in much.
You’re probably right. It still feels like many other languages are using this word in its original meaning, so even if the English language has a different definition, bringing some “utopian” concepts to a global community might be misunderstood.
Actually, In Chapter 1 of What We Owe The Future, reintroducing this distinction is something that MacAskill does!
In practice, people mean “eutopia” when they say “utopia”, and in a Wittgensteinian sense ‘meaning is use’, so changing language won’t actually result in much.
You’re probably right. It still feels like many other languages are using this word in its original meaning, so even if the English language has a different definition, bringing some “utopian” concepts to a global community might be misunderstood.