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Full Idea
Where conservatives believe in the renewal of traditional community, liberals believe as well in the flight from family and tradition into new kinds of communal order. …It is an idea of assembling confidence and energies for reform.
Gist of Idea
Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 1)
Book Ref
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.72
A Reaction
He cites Greenwich Village as an example. This suggests that his vision is a little narrow. His communities are for radicals who flee to join like minds in big cities. Politics must care about community for those left behind. Pubs, sport and pets.
| 22531 | We aim to understand the best possible community for free people [Aristotle] |
| 23043 | All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH] |
| 23410 | Modern liberals see a community as simply a society which respects freedom and equality [Kymlicka] |
| 23387 | Liberals must avoid an official culture, as well as an official religion [Kymlicka] |
| 23388 | Liberals need more than freedom; they must build a nation, through a language and institutions [Kymlicka] |
| 22818 | Liberals are not too individualistic, because people recognise and value social relations [Kymlicka] |
| 21121 | Liberal Nationalism encourages the promotion of nationalistic values [Shorten] |
| 22822 | Liberals promote community and well-being - because all good societies need them [Charvet] |
| 23124 | Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers [Gopnik] |
| 23127 | Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups [Gopnik] |