COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Communitarianism, Peninsular Malaysia
10 Feb 2020
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Generic dump: communitarianism denies individuality and does not exist in the sense of larger scale communities. This is so because a religion, a nation or a culture are conceived as separate from and usually as higher and above the people that comprise it. Reverence for religion, nation and culture, and a strong sense of belonging to them, do not translate into caring for the fellow human beings who also belong to them. They people are seen as vehicles or servants of these ideals. Consider, for example, the society and culture of the aboriginal peoples living in the forests of peninsula malaysia. It seems clear that their society is good for them given that, taken out of their communities they would probably perish since they lack the resources needed to survive in another social environment. If their society were destroyed they would be worse off even if they survived and were transplanted into other communities.
