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Single Idea 22811

[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism ]

Full Idea

It would be incomprehensible and incoherent to ascribe rights to human beings in respect of the specifically human capacities (such as the right to beliefs or life-style) while at the same time denying that those capacities ought to be developed.

Gist of Idea

Assigning a right based on a human capacity implies that the capacity should be developed

Source

Charles Taylor (Atomism [1979], p.33)

Book Ref

'Communitarianism and Individualism', ed/tr. Avineri,S. /de-Shalit,A. [OUP 1992], p.33

A Reaction

Developed by whom? The agent, their family, or the state? At what point has someone got a capacity, with no further requirement to develop it? Taylor pulls rather large rabbits out of small hats.

The 35 ideas with the same theme [nature of politic systems based on community]:

5841 Obedience to the law gives the best life, and success in war [Socrates, by Xenophon]
239 Education in virtue produces citizens who are active but obedient [Plato]
2131 Is there anything better for a community than to produce excellent people? [Plato]
8237 Extend the treatment of the old and young in your family to the rest of society [Mengzi (Mencius)]
5260 Friendship holds communities together, and lawgivers value it more than justice [Aristotle]
5264 Friendship is based on a community of sharing [Aristotle]
22564 Community is based on friends, who are equal and similar, and share things [Aristotle]
22565 The best communities rely on a large and strong middle class [Aristotle]
22585 Look at all of the citizens before judging a city to be happy [Aristotle]
22589 Citizens do not just own themselves, but are also parts of the city [Aristotle]
7668 Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]
22034 Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social [Hegel, by Pinkard]
8936 Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds [Hegel]
21790 Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8030 For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community [Hegel, by MacIntyre]
5293 Only in community are people able to cultivate their gifts, and therefore be free [Marx/Engels]
20576 Early Marx anticipates communitarian objections to liberalism [Marx, by Oksala]
23028 The highest political efforts express our deeper social spirit [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23038 People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
22880 The things in civilisation we prize are the products of other members of our community [Dewey]
7492 Early societies are based on community, and modern societies on association [Tönnies, by Watson]
22811 Assigning a right based on a human capacity implies that the capacity should be developed [Taylor,C]
22815 If freedom depends on society and culture, the greatest freedom is in shaping them [Taylor,C]
23409 Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture [Kymlicka]
18659 The 'Kantian' view of the self misses the way it is embedded or situated in society [Kymlicka]
18660 Communitarians say we should pay more attention to our history [Kymlicka]
22804 Autonomy is better achieved within a community [Avineri/De-Shalit]
22806 Communitarians avoid oppression for the common good, by means of small mediating communities [Avineri/De-Shalit]
22260 Modern liberalism fails to articulate a vision of the common good [Sandel]
22805 Liberalism concerns rights, and communitarianism concerns the common good [Sandel, by Avineri/De-Shalit]
10333 Communitarianism in epistemology sees the community as the primary knower [Kusch]
20556 The best way to build a cohesive community is to be involved in a war [Swift]
20689 In 1750 losing your family and community meant death [Harari]
21114 Liberals treat individuals as mutual strangers, rather than as social beings [Shorten]
20613 We have obligations to our family, even though we didn't choose its members [Tuckness/Wolf]