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communitarianismPolitical and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of community in the functioning of political life, in the analysis and evaluation of political institutions, and in understanding human identity and well-being. It was developed in the 1980s and '90s in explicit opposition to the theoretical liberalism of thinkers such as John Rawls. According to communitarians, liberalism relies on a conception of the individual that is unrealistically atomistic and abstract; it also places too much importance on individual values such as freedom and autonomy. Its chief representatives include Amitai Etzioni, Michael Sandel, and Charles Taylor. See also collectivism. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Jed Horne introduces us to Malik Rahim and Common Ground, the "multi-pronged social-services operation, a template for the kind of do-it-yourself communitarianism that adherents hoped might one day supplant the clumsy and crumbling bureaucracies that had served New Orleans so poorly, before and after Katrina. If anyone constructed a theology drawn from the lives of the saints, it was Dorothy Day: she drew on the communitarianism of St. To use a religious metaphor, Catholic community proceeds from infant baptism, while secular communitarianism requires some kind of "born again" experience. |
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