PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Michael J. Sandel, Political Liberalism, Communitarianism
21 Apr 2014
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Communitarianism was a name bandied about in the early 1980s to refer to a loose conglomeration of ideas said to be opposed to liberalism , especially of the rawlsian and dworkinian varieties. The key writers then called communitarian were michael. Sandel, michael walzer, charles taylor, and alisdair macintyre. All four later tried to shake off the label in tones occasionally reminiscent of testimonies to maccarthy"s. Huac in the 1950s: i am not now, nor have i ever been, a communitarian (macintyre). Liberalism was taken to mean, then and now, a philosophy that made individual liberty primary in some important way. So there was a vague idea that communitarianism and liberalism were at odds over whether community and communal values or individuals and individual liberty were primary. Be that vagueness as it may, the loose association of ideas, many critical of rawls" a. Theory of justice, had considerable influence, and appears to have motivated much of.
