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Full Idea
We must all be nurtures by others as children, and we only flourish as adults in relationship with friends, mates, children and so on. But this has nothing to do with any obligation to belong to political society.
Gist of Idea
Our reliance on other people close to us does not imply any political obligations
Source
Charles Taylor (Atomism [1979], p.42)
Book Ref
'Communitarianism and Individualism', ed/tr. Avineri,S. /de-Shalit,A. [OUP 1992], p.42
A Reaction
He is defending community, but not at that minimal human level. Political obligations follows from our need for a wider society, to achieve justice, education, travel, health etc. There are no rights without a society
22091 | Kierkegaard prioritises the inward individual, rather than community [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
22814 | Our reliance on other people close to us does not imply any political obligations [Taylor,C] |
23420 | In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls] |
23413 | Feminism has shown that social roles are far from fixed (as communitarians tend to see them) [Kymlicka] |
23419 | Communitarianism struggles with excluded marginalised groups [Kymlicka] |
23415 | Participation aids the quest for the good life, but why should that be a state activity? [Kymlicka] |
18657 | Communitarian states only encourage fairly orthodox ideas of the good life [Kymlicka] |
22807 | If our values are given to us by society then we have no grounds to criticise them [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22265 | I can't defend the view that the majority values of a community are thereby right [Sandel] |
20557 | Membership and inclusion in a community implies non-membership and exclusion [Swift] |
20555 | Liberals are concerned to protect individuals from too much community [Swift] |
22842 | For communitarians it seems that you must accept the culture you are born into [Charvet] |
23536 | Community is now a nostalgic memory, which no longer exists [Berardi] |