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Single Idea 23409

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

Full Idea

In recent centuries the ideal of community has taken many forms, from class solidarity or shared citizenship to a common ethnic descent or cultural identity.

Gist of Idea

Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture

Source

Will Kymlicka (Community [1993], 'Intro')

Book Ref

'A Companion to Contemporary Political Phil', ed/tr. Goodin,R.E/Pettit,Philip [Blackwell 1995], p.366

A Reaction

Language and religion are not explicitly mentioned, but must be implied. Supporting a major sports team is also worth mentioning.

Related Idea

Idea 23411 Communitarians see justice as primarily a community matter, rather than a principle [Kymlicka]

The 61 ideas from Will Kymlicka

23413 Feminism has shown that social roles are far from fixed (as communitarians tend to see them) [Kymlicka]
23409 Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture [Kymlicka]
23411 Communitarians see justice as primarily a community matter, rather than a principle [Kymlicka]
23410 Modern liberals see a community as simply a society which respects freedom and equality [Kymlicka]
23418 Liberal state legitimacy is based on a belief in justice, not in some conception of the good life [Kymlicka]
23419 Communitarianism struggles with excluded marginalised groups [Kymlicka]
23412 Justice resolves conflicts, but may also provoke them [Kymlicka]
23415 Participation aids the quest for the good life, but why should that be a state activity? [Kymlicka]
23414 Liberals say state intervention in culture restricts people's autonomy [Kymlicka]
18623 The quest of the general good is partly undermined by people's past entitlements [Kymlicka]
18624 Utilitarianism is not a decision-procedure; choice of the best procedure is an open question [Kymlicka]
18626 One view says start with equality, and infer equal weight to interests, and hence maximum utility [Kymlicka]
18650 Teleological theories give the good priority over concern for people [Kymlicka]
18652 The Lockean view of freedom depends on whether you had a right to what is restricted [Kymlicka]
18651 The most valuable liberties to us need not be the ones with the most freedom [Kymlicka]
18627 A second view says start with maximising the good, implying aggregation, and hence equality [Kymlicka]
18625 To maximise utility should we double the population, even if life somewhat deteriorates? [Kymlicka]
18628 We shouldn't endorse preferences which reject equality, and show prejudice and selfishness [Kymlicka]
18630 Utilitarianism is no longer a distinctive political position [Kymlicka]
18629 Using utilitarian principles to make decisions encourages cold detachment from people [Kymlicka]
18632 Liberalism tends to give priority to basic liberties [Kymlicka]
18633 Equal opportunities seems fair, because your fate is from your choices, not your circumstances [Kymlicka]
18634 Equal opportunity arbitrarily worries about social circumstances, but ignores talents [Kymlicka]
18637 Utilitarianism is irrational if it tells you to trade in your rights and resources just for benefits [Kymlicka]
18635 Social contract theories are usually rejected because there never was such a contract [Kymlicka]
18638 The difference principles says we must subsidise the costs of other people's choices [Kymlicka]
18640 Libertarians like the free market, but they also think that the free market is just [Kymlicka]
18649 If everyone owned himself, that would prevent slavery [Kymlicka]
18654 Marxists say justice is unneeded in the truly good community [Kymlicka]
18655 Justice corrects social faults, but also expresses respect to individuals as ends [Kymlicka]
18656 Marxists say liberalism is unjust, because it allows exploitation in the sale of labour [Kymlicka]
18657 Communitarian states only encourage fairly orthodox ideas of the good life [Kymlicka]
18659 The 'Kantian' view of the self misses the way it is embedded or situated in society [Kymlicka]
18658 The 'Kantian' self steps back from commitment to its social situation [Kymlicka]
18660 Communitarians say we should pay more attention to our history [Kymlicka]
18661 Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka]
18663 Modern liberalism has added personal privacy to our personal social lives [Kymlicka]
18664 Maybe the particularist moral thought of women is better than the impartial public thinking of men [Kymlicka]
23371 Modern democratic theory focuses on talk, not votes, because we need consensus or compromise [Kymlicka]
23369 Some liberals thinks checks and balances are enough, without virtuous citizens [Kymlicka]
23370 Good citizens need civic virtues of loyalty, independence, diligence, respect, etc. [Kymlicka]
23373 Liberals accept that people need society, but Aristotelians must show that they need political activity [Kymlicka]
23375 Minimal liberal citizenship needs common civility, as well as mere non-interference [Kymlicka]
23376 Modern non-discrimination obliges modern citizens to treat each other as equals [Kymlicka]
23377 The right wing sees citizenship in terms of responsibility to earn a living, rather than rights [Kymlicka]
23374 We have become attached to private life because that has become greatly enriched [Kymlicka]
23380 Some individuals can gain citizenship as part of a group, rather than as mere individuals [Kymlicka]
23381 The status hierarchy is independent of the economic hierarchy [Kymlicka]
23379 Rights are a part of nation-building, to build a common national identity and culture [Kymlicka]
23382 Rights derived from group membership are opposed to the idea of state citizenship [Kymlicka]
23378 The welfare state helps to integrate the working classes into a national culture [Kymlicka]
23383 Some multiculturalists defended the rights of cohesive minorities against liberal individualism [Kymlicka]
23384 'Culturalist' liberals say that even liberal individuals may need minority rights [Kymlicka]
23385 Multiculturalism may entail men dominating women in minority groups [Kymlicka]
23386 Liberals must prefer minority right which are freedoms, not restrictions [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]
23389 Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build? [Kymlicka]
23390 In a liberal democracy all subjects of authority have a right to determine the authority [Kymlicka]
23391 Multiculturalism is liberal if it challenges inequality, conservative if it emphasises common good [Kymlicka]
22818 Liberals are not too individualistic, because people recognise and value social relations [Kymlicka]