PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Communitarianism
14 Apr 2017
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The new ideal of community: the community already exists in the form of common social practices, cultural traditions and shared social media understandings. One important issue: individual rights vs. the common good. Self-determination: the right to choose the "good life" Value pluralism: an empirical fact (testable) the idea that we value a plurality of conceptions of. "the good life" (self-determination vs). paternalism: the interference of the state in our best interests. Leading life from the inside: the idea that our life only goes better for us if we lead it according to our beliefs about what"s valuable. State neutrality: there is no public ranking of the value of different (justice-respecting) ways of life. Communitarians: replace individualism with the common good, which is defined the community"s practice, here and now. Kymlicka - how to be a good citizen: what sorts of virtues and practices are required to be democratic citizens, general virtues: loyalty, law-abidingness b. c. d. e.
