Full Idea
Communitarians often argue that personal autonomy is better achieved within the community.
Gist of Idea
Autonomy is better achieved within a community
Source
Avineri,S/De-Shalit,A (Intro to 'Communitarianism and Individualism' [1992], §4)
Book Reference
'Communitarianism and Individualism', ed/tr. Avineri,S. /de-Shalit,A. [OUP 1992], p.7
A Reaction
Hegel is the source of this view. The simplest version of the point is that autonomy can only be asserted if a person has rights, which can be asserted and defended, and only a society can provide that. That is plausible.