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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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~ Not Communism, not Capitalism, but Communitarianism ~ ... Communitarianism [Standord Encyclopedia of Philosopy]: "Drawing primarily upon the insights of Aristotle and Hegel, political philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre...disputed Rawls' assumption that the principal task of government is to secure and distribute...
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Communitarianism emerged in the 1980s as a response to the limits of liberal theory and practice. Its dominant themes are that individual rights need to be balanced with social responsibilities, and that autonomous selves do not exist in isolation, but are shaped by the values and culture of communities.
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While movements like Communitarianism are trying to replace responsibility to self with responsibility to the state, on the grounds that this is responsibility to others, the very idea of personal responsibility has been damaged by the idea that the causes of people's actions are exculpatory (i.e.
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The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University, the nation's leading center for communitarian policy research, is a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to finding constructive solutions ... In its research papers and other publications, Its aim is to contribute to effective solutions,
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Sometime over the last two years, someone somewhere must have decreed that the intellectual buzzword of the '90s was to be "communitarianism." Only five years ago, communitarianism was an obscure school of philosophy discussed in faculty seminars; ... What is communitarianism? Where did it come from? How come everyone seems...
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I. THE COMMON GOOD ... II. THE ENCUMBERED SELF ... NOTES ON COMMUNITARIANISM...
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