Community and Communitarianism

Name: Community and Communitarianism
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ISBN: 9781610970563

ISBN-10: 161097056X

ISBN-13: 9781610970563

Edition: N/A

Authors: Haig A. Khatchadourian

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Community and Communitarianism presents--and defends in detail--a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in teleological communities, cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 6/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Moral Community



Why Community?



Good and Moral Community



ï¿½The Good Societyï¿½: A Comparative Sketch



An Ethic of Caring



An Ethic of Caring-I



An Ethic of Caring-II



Human Rights and the Ethic of Caring-I



Human Rights and the Ethic of Caring-II



Justice and the Ethic of Caring



Persons, Community, and the Ethic of Caring



Human Rights, Justice, and Moral Community



Human Rights and Moral Community



The ï¿½Institutionalï¿½ Role of Human Rights in a Moral Community



Justice and Moral Community



Feminist and ï¿½Postmodernï¿½ Challenges to Communitarianism



Conclusion


Index