Tradition
Communitarianism
Overview
Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based on the belief that a person's social identity and personality are largely moulded by community relationships, with a smaller degree of development being placed on individualism.
Although the community might be a family, communitarianism usually is understood, in the wider, philosophical sense, as a collection of interactions, among a community of people in a given place (geographical location), or among a community who share an interest or who share a history.
As a political philosophy, communitarians emphasize the importance of the family and intermediary institutions of civil society, such as churches, charities, and other voluntary associations, understood as non-coercive social structures that stand apart from both collectivism (exercised in the form of state authority) and individualism. In Europe, communitarian ideas are often associated with Christian democratic traditions, with notable communitarian parties being the German CDU, the Dutch CDA and the Austrian ÖVP.
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This public person, so formed by the union of all other persons, formerly took the name of _city_,[1] and now takes that of _Republic_ or _body politic_; it is called by its members _State_ when passive, _Sovereign_ when active, and _Power_ when compared with others like itself. Those who are associated in it take collectively the name of _people_, and severally are called _citizens_, as sharing in the sovereign…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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This public personality is usually called the body politic, which is called by its members the State when it is passive, and the Sovereign when it is active, and a Power when compared with its equals. With regard to the members themselves, collectively they are known as the nation, and individually as citizens as members of the city or partakers in the sovereign power, and subjects as obedient to the same authority…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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Beyond duty, lies the sphere of conscience and of religion. And that is not the mere insistence by the individual to have a voice and a vote in determining the social order. It is the sense that the social order, however omnipotent it may seem, is limited and finite, and that man has in him a kindred with the Eternal.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Communitarianism is; the author is tied to Communitarianism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Communitarianism
- Étienne Cabet
- John Rawls
- Richard Rorty
- Martin Buber
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Michael Sandel
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Michael Walzer
- Emmanuel Mounier
- John Watson (philosopher)
- FM-2030
Related ideas
- Roger Scruton
- John Rawls
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Self-help
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Mount Athos
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Tommaso Campanella
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Original position
- Karl Marx
- Social relation
- Democracy in America
- T. H. Green
- New Testament
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Welfare state
- Martin Buber
- Plato
- Political philosophy
- Charles Fourier
- Joseph Raz
- Individual
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.