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Single Idea 8030
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
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Full Idea
Hegel's final standpoint is that the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community.
Gist of Idea
For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821]) by Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics Ch.15
Book Ref
MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'A Short History of Ethics' [Routledge 1967], p.208
A Reaction
This (together with Aristotle) is the basis of modern communitarianism. There is the problem of saintly people who kept their integrity through the Nazi period. I agree with the proposal, in a loose sort of way.
The
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with the same theme
[nature of politic systems based on community]:
5841
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Obedience to the law gives the best life, and success in war
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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239
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Education in virtue produces citizens who are active but obedient
[Plato]
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2131
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Is there anything better for a community than to produce excellent people?
[Plato]
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8237
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Extend the treatment of the old and young in your family to the rest of society
[Mengzi (Mencius)]
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5260
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Friendship holds communities together, and lawgivers value it more than justice
[Aristotle]
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5264
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Friendship is based on a community of sharing
[Aristotle]
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22564
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Community is based on friends, who are equal and similar, and share things
[Aristotle]
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22565
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The best communities rely on a large and strong middle class
[Aristotle]
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22585
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Look at all of the citizens before judging a city to be happy
[Aristotle]
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22589
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Citizens do not just own themselves, but are also parts of the city
[Aristotle]
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7668
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Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group
[Herder, by Berlin]
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22034
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Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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8936
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Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds
[Hegel]
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21790
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Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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8030
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For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community
[Hegel, by MacIntyre]
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5293
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Only in community are people able to cultivate their gifts, and therefore be free
[Marx/Engels]
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20576
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Early Marx anticipates communitarian objections to liberalism
[Marx, by Oksala]
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23028
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The highest political efforts express our deeper social spirit
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23038
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People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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22880
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The things in civilisation we prize are the products of other members of our community
[Dewey]
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7492
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Early societies are based on community, and modern societies on association
[Tönnies, by Watson]
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22811
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Assigning a right based on a human capacity implies that the capacity should be developed
[Taylor,C]
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22815
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If freedom depends on society and culture, the greatest freedom is in shaping them
[Taylor,C]
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23409
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Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture
[Kymlicka]
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18659
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The 'Kantian' view of the self misses the way it is embedded or situated in society
[Kymlicka]
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18660
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Communitarians say we should pay more attention to our history
[Kymlicka]
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22804
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Autonomy is better achieved within a community
[Avineri/De-Shalit]
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22806
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Communitarians avoid oppression for the common good, by means of small mediating communities
[Avineri/De-Shalit]
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22260
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Modern liberalism fails to articulate a vision of the common good
[Sandel]
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22805
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Liberalism concerns rights, and communitarianism concerns the common good
[Sandel, by Avineri/De-Shalit]
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10333
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Communitarianism in epistemology sees the community as the primary knower
[Kusch]
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20556
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The best way to build a cohesive community is to be involved in a war
[Swift]
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20689
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In 1750 losing your family and community meant death
[Harari]
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21114
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Liberals treat individuals as mutual strangers, rather than as social beings
[Shorten]
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20613
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We have obligations to our family, even though we didn't choose its members
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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