Sentence examples for communitarian about from inspiring English sources

But there is nothing distinctively communitarian about the preoccupation with social order; both liberals such as John Stuart Mill and Burkean conservatives affirm the need for order.

Communitarian insights about civil society as the sites for moral education can help to remedy the Confucian focus on the family as the only (or main) springboard for moral learning.

Yet the era known as "the '60s" remains poorly understood and fiercely debated - as two Berkeley scholars discovered recently when they set out to learn about communitarian experiments of that time.

There are libertarian Republicans who believe "the more, the better" is the only answer on immigration policy and communitarian Republicans who worry about the impact on wages, assimilation and cultural cohesion.

Calhoun taught at N.Y.U. for sixteen years, and he said that Sexton "came in with a strong, communitarian message he was serious about his commitment to that ideal but it played to the university as a corporate message, because it was filtered through a big, hierarchical leadership structure".

And aside from that he is a bit more sceptical about the communitarian conservatism of rural Tories.

I called him on the phone a few days later to learn a bit more about the communitarian spirit and the history of gay square dancing.

Communitarian claims is not about replacing the bureaucrat; instead society would play a role in establishing the value base of the health care system and the bureaucrat would have a role in ensuring that the system is managed according to these values (Black and Mooney 2002).

Thus the tragedies provided a communitarian context for telling stories about conflict and its effects.

It was fitting that David Koch was the beaming financial god presiding over this Orwellian makeover of Republicans as generous communitarians who care about grandmas, cherish immigrants and defend Medicare, so movingly described by the vice presidential nominee who tried to turn Medicare into a voucher system as "an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents".

What may be distinctive about communitarians is that they are more inclined to argue that individuals have a vital interest in leading decent communal lives, with the political implication that there may be a need to sustain and promote the communal attachments crucial to our sense of well-being.