communitarianism
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9.1
- noun
- /kəˌmjunɪˈtɛrɪənˌɪzəm/
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comunitarismo
- The philosophy of communitarianism encourages individuals to engage actively in their local community for the common good.
- liberal communitarianism
- form of communitarianism
- argues that communitarianism
Examples
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Communitarianism emphasizes the importance of social institutions and civic responsibility within a community over individual interests.
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Many of those who promote communitarianism, including Sandel, also incorporate Aristotle's virtue ethics in their theories.
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But is such a liberal communitarianism possible?
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What Taylor gives us is, in the last analysis, another form of liberal communitarianism.
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What seems to be needed is a more coherent form of communitarianism than has been presented to date.
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Communitarianism can be understood variously as a political theory, a political movement, and a political strategy.
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A more serious account of communitarianism is given by Michael Walzer in Spheres of Justice.
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Contemporary communitarianism is a response, or a set of responses, to a constitutive world that cries out for sympathy.
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In establishing the Jewish agricultural settlements, the founding members weighed individualism versus communitarianism, agriculture versus industrialization, and religion versus secularism.
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Many scholars believe that communitarianism can help address social issues by highlighting the role of community in supporting individuals.
Synonyms
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A belief that the group's needs come before individual needs
Antonyms
How Communitarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
communitarianism = communitarian (transparent) = community + arian + ism
The noun is a standard ideological formation from the adjective 'communitarian' using the productive suffix '-ism'.
Etymology
The word communitarianism comes from community and the ending -ism, and community comes from a root that means 'common' or 'shared'. So, communitarianism is the belief that the community and people's duties to each other matter more than each person's individual interests.