Communitarianism

2004

A word from the editor The papers collected here were presented at the eighth conference of the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) at Amana Colonies, Iowa, USA from the 28th to 30th June 2004. ICSA is an organization of scholars, community members and others with an interest in communities. The papers presented at the conference reflect this mix – they have a variety of styles and content, from academic articles to personal essays on community life. This is one of the strengths of ICSA. The papers have been through a simple selection process: Those presenters who asked for their papers to be included here have been included, as long as they were on the theme of the conference. The content of papers represent the views of the authors themselves and not of ICSA, Amana Colonies, nor the conference sponsors. The papers have also been through a simple editing process. Rather than impose an academic style on authors, the papers have been edited to use the same font and line spacing. Otherwise, the style used by the author has been retained, including the spelling conventions used in their country of origin. The decision to produce an electronic book (eBook) of the proceedings was motivated by a desire to make them available to the widest possible audience at the lowest possible price. It is a format that worked well for the seventh conference proceedings. We welcome feedback on how this works for current readers. Peter Forster

Contemporary Sociology, 1999

proposes a policy agenda for citizens to work for the common good. First, he endeavors to bring together the diverse strands of communitarian ideas developed by various thinkers in Europe and America, and, then, through a synthesis of these ideas, attempts to formulate a critical theory of social and political reforms necessary for building inclusive communities. Reading more like a manifesto than an academic treatise, the book makes a plausible argument for reconstituting some of the major institutions of democratic societies. Tam begins by proposing that the communitarian agenda for realizing an inclusive community-a space where common interests are developed (and pursued) with the participation of alI citizens as equals-consider three factors: (I) the principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation; (2) an application of these principles to matters concerning the education, work opportunities, and protection of alI citizens; and (3) what colIective actions those involved with the state sector, the business sector, and the third sector of voluntary and community groups can take in order to bring about the necessary reforms. The principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation, Tam posits, have been formulated on the basis of communitarian thinking that has evolved through the ages. Unfortunately, he does not say which sources he surveyed in inventorying these principles. Nor does Tam mention how he arrived at their formulation. Through logical deduction? Through empirical investigation of objective data? And aside from some passing references to Plato, John Stuart Mill, and a few others, it is difficult to get a sense for exactly which communitarian thinkers and what ages Tam has in mind. As a method for resolving social and political differences, the principle of cooperative inquiry requires that any knowledge-claim about the kinds of common values needed to build inclusive communities be judged as valid only if informed citizens deliberating together in open communication accept that claim. The second communitarian principle, that of mutual responsibility, requires alI members ofa community to take responsibility for helping each other pursue those common values that have stood the test of time across diverse cultures. According to Tam, these include the values of love, wisdom, justice, and selffulfillment. Again, Tam does not say how he arrived at these particular values. Few would deny that love, wisdom, and justice are universals that have been prized in most civil societies throughout human history, but so also have been the notions of civility, sacrifice, and faith, to name just a few others. And as for Tam's value of self-fulfillment, which is rights-based not duty-based, it can hardly be said to

İnsan ve Toplum - The Journal of Humanity and Society, 2024

Abstract: Communitarian thought could be a noteworthy alternative to the prevailing moral-political realities established by liberal assumptions and presuppositions, as its interpretations on issues it broaches in the realms of being, knowledge, and value indicate. However, it is not entirely accurate to say that communitarianism is examined as an alternative to liberal thought in the literature. The role assigned to it is more so to serve as a corrective that moderates the extremes of liberal thought. This article aims to reinterpret communitarianism not as a corrective of liberalism, but as an alternative thought system to it. The main contention of the article is that, just like liberalism, communitarianism can indeed be read as a standalone political philosophy. This claim is sought to be grounded in the article by the existence of a unique philosophical foundation from which the criticisms of communitarian thinkers toward liberalism also emerge and are nourished - in other words, the fundamental premises and assumptions that make the communitarian critique “communitarian”. In this context, rather than focusing on the critiques of communitarians against liberalism, the article offers an examination that reveals the ontological, epistemological, and axiological foundations of communitarian thought. Keywords: Political philosophy, Communitarianism, Ontology, Epistemology, Axiology Öz: Varlık, bilgi ve değer düzlemlerinde tartışmaya açtığı meselelere ilişkin yorumları; komüniteryan düşüncenin, cari ahlaki-siyasi gerçekliğimizi tesis eden liberal kabul ve faraziyelerin kayda değer bir alternatifi olabileceğini göstermektedir. Fakat literatürde komüniteryanizmin liberal düşüncenin bir alternatifi olarak incelendiği söylemek pek de mümkün değildir. Ona biçilen rol, daha ziyade, liberal düşüncenin aşırılıklarını törpüleyecek bir düzelticisi olmasıdır. Bu makale, komüniteryanizmi liberalizmin bir düzelticisi değil, ona alternatif bir düşünce sistemi olarak yeniden yorumlamayı amaçlar. Makalenin temel iddiası, tıpkı liberalizm gibi komüniteryanizmin de müstakil bir siyaset felsefesi olarak okunabileceğidir. Bu iddia, makalede, komüniteryan düşünürlerin liberalizme yönelik eleştirilerini de doğurup besleyen özgün bir felsefi zeminin-bir diğer ifadeyle komüniteryan eleştiriyi "komüniteryan" kılan birtakım temel kabul ve varsayımların-mevcudiyetiyle temellendirilmeye çalışılır. Bu bağlamda makale, komüniteryanların liberalizm eleştirilerine odaklanmak yerine; komüniteryan düşüncenin ontolojik, epistemolojik ve aksiyolojik temellerini açığa çıkaran bir inceleme vaat etmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Siyaset felsefesi, Komüniteryanizm, Ontoloji, Epistemoloji, Aksiyoloji Source: https://www.insanvetoplum.org/sayilar/14cilt-3-sayi/m0740

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Taylor, Sandel, Walzer, and MacIntyre waver between granting the community authority over the individual and limiting this authority so severely that communitarianism becomes a dead letter. The reason for this vacillation can be found in the aspiration of each theorist to base liberal valuesequality and liberty-on particularism. Communitarians compound liberal formalism by adding to the liberal goal, individual autonomy, the equally abstract aim of grounding autonomy in a communally shared identity. Far from returning political theory to substantive considerations of the good, communitarianism legitimizes really existing liberal politics-the politics of the nation-state.

History of European Ideas, 1994

ethic@ - An international Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2013

Three decades after it arose, the contemporary Communitarianism and the questions it raised still appear to be worthy of serious attention. In an attempt to confront this legacy, the first part of the present essay seeks to propose a redefinition of the concept of community. It does so by setting itself two key phenomenological questions, which are both devoted to the concept of sharing. The first question asks how something can be shared amongst multiple beings who are divided by emotional, ethical, religious, linguistic and ethnic differences. The second and no less fundamental question, in turn, asks what people have to share in the first place. The second part of the essay invokes a familiar Kantian distinction in order to sketch out and discuss a proposed 'semantics of sharing'. This semantic model is intended to clarify and enrich the questions surrounding the 'integration of the self', which constitutes one of the most central aspects of the human being's need for sociality.

-a category of disadvantaged people -unorganized groupment of people, they need a help -a community of interests -organised interest association, that express its interests and work on them -a service community -organised connection inhabitants of community, that are able afford a help with a network of professional organizations -a municipality -that is mean as social space, in which are built relations between providers of services and disadvantaged, who are able establis their interests and support their realisations by an activity/action Social work (Popple, 1995; Barker, 1987; Hartl, 1993 Hartl, , 1997 consider as community rather groupment of people, who have common characteristics, no expect with existing sens of community, fellings of solidarity etc. Objectives of community work are to mobilise this facts.

The Journal of Sociology Social Welfare, 2015

Communitarian thought is an emerging force in American social policy in the 1990s. Communitarians see the breakdown of community and morality as the major problem of our society. They conclude that rampant individualism is the cause of this breakdown. Communitarians propose reforms that will limit rampant individualism and restore our communities and institutions. In these proposals are threats to social justice, as well as positive elements that social workers can endorse. This paper reviews and critiques the communitarian position and suggests ways that social workers can use this new force to advance the cause of social justice.