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| 22818 | Liberals are not too individualistic, because people recognise and value social relations |
| Full Idea: It is alleged that liberals fail to recognise that people are naturally social or communal. …But liberals believe that people form and join social relations in which they come to understand and pursue the good. | |||
| From: Will Kymlicka (Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality [1989], Conc) | |||
| A reaction: This is particulary aimed at communitarians, who see liberalism as based on a distorted concept of people as isolated beings. Personally I am beginning to shift my views from Aristotelian communitarianism to modern liberalism, so I like this idea. |