KONVERGENSI PEMIKIRAN ETIKA SOSIAL GUS DUR DAN ETIKA UTILITARIANISME

This paper tries to explore the consep of maṣlaḥa of Abdurrahman Wahid as known better call his name by Gus Dur and it’s convergence with the utilitarianism ethics. This research starting from the deep curiousity intellectual the writer after saw he’s thinking in few media as such as the magazine, newspaper today, and his books that has codificated in the famous publisher in Indonesia. Even he’s—as we known—never wrote his thinking in a full books as such as academic type, however if we seen of his thinks could be understood if in every his ideas has a metodology and a current basic approach. From this describe we have a few problem research, first, how the truth the concept of maṣlaḥa Abdurrahman Wahid; second, how the convergence of his maṣlaḥa base ethics thinking with the utilitarianism ethics; third, how the relevance his maṣlaḥa based ethics thinking in Indonesia today. This research was library studies that use the deductive and inductive methode. Meanwhile, the research use a few approaches as such as historical-philosopys and descriptive-analysis. This discourse seen important because almost never found the thinking that describe of the concept of maṣlaḥa based ethics of Abdurrahman Wahid especially from islamic law perspective.