PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Communitarianism, Michael J. Sandel
1 Sep 2020
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They believe it should be abandoned for a poetics of the common good. The community"s way of life forms the basis for a public ranking of conceptions of the good, and the weight given to an individual"s preferences depends on how much she conforms or contributes to this common good. On the liberal view of the self, individuals are considered free to question their participation in existing social practices, and opt out of them, should those practices seem no longer worth pursuing. Communitarians believes that this is a false view of the self. It ignores the fact that the self is embedded or situated in existing social practices, that we cannot always stand back and opt out of them. Communitarians have a number of arguments against the liberal account of the self and its ends. Michael sandel argues that the self is not prior to, but rather constituted by, its ends we cannot distinguish me form my ends .
