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Communitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Communitarianism , as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late 20th century, opposing exalted forms of individualism while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not neces...
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Political Night Train believes every voter should know the core values and beliefs of the candidates. Here is what we believe is the basis for Hillary’s. ... In it’s simplest form, communitarianism places the interests of the community above the interests of the individual. In this form, communitarian philosophy,
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Communitarian philosophers are primarily concerned with ontological and epistemological issues, as distinct from policy issues. The communitarian response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice reflects dissatisfaction with the image Rawls presents of humans ... Communitarians claim values and beliefs to exist in public space,
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an excellent entry summarizing this philosophy, which I recommend reading if you’re not already familiar with the communitarian position. ... Most of our beliefs and values, communitarians argue, are the result of the community and social circles we are a part of.
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The search is not for the sort of common good that many communitarians seek (Guttman and Thompson 1996: 92) but rather for ways in which people may share in a common life. Moral disagreement will persist – the key is whether we can learn to respect and engage with each other’s ideas, behaviours and beliefs.
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Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor argued that moral and political judgment will depend on the language of reasons and the interpretive framework within which agents view their world, hence that it makes no sense to begin the political enterprise by abstracting from the interpretive dimensions of human beliefs,
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Yet for the working class, communitarian beliefs cannot provide a substitute for socialist ideology. This is true even for African-Americans, the most radical community in the US; for the struggle of communitarian ideologies is, by definition, limited to the struggle against institutionalised racism.
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