RT Article
T1 Kommunitaristischer Liberalismus: Der Text basiert auf einer Vorlesung, die am 12.4.1994 am Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C., gehalten wurde
JF Der Staat
VO 34
IS 4
SP 487
OP 502
A1 Selznick, Philip
LA German
YR 1995
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/362857784
AB This essay offers a fresh perspective on the "communitarian-liberal" debate. Instead of attacking purported premises of liberalism, such as "atomism", Selznick calls for a union of communitarian and liberal perspectives. The article examines three basic liberal ideals: equality, liberty, rationality. These are warmly embraced, but they are also criticized as having been corrupted by overly abstract, absolutist, uncontextual modes of thought. These criticisms are communitarian because they give great weight to the social frameworks within which all ideals find their limits as well as their opportunities. In addition, the article expresses communitarian resistance to liberal doctrines that dilute the idea of a "common good", and that treat democracy as mainly a device for managing diversity. On the contrary, it is argued, we need a robust conception of the general welfare; and democracy should be understood as a way of bringing people together to solve common problems, not as mainly a way of keeping them from one another's throats. (Der Staat / FUB)
K1 Politische Philosophie
K1 Soziologie
K1 Kommunitarismus
K1 Liberalismus
K1 Gesellschaft
K1 Wert
K1 Grundwerte
K1 Politische Philosophie : Gesellschaftstheorie : Kommunitarismus : Liberalismus : Gesellschaft : Soziale Werte : Politische Grundwerte
K1 Soziale Gerechtigkeit
K1 Liberalism
K1 communitarism
K1 basic values
K1 Social Justice