The ethical values of compassion, solidarity, reciprocity, cooperation, interdependence, and social well-being, which are counted among the principles of the communitarian morality, primarily impose duties on the individual with respect to the community and its members.
Social or community life itself, a robust feature of the African communitarian society, mandates a morality that clearly is weighted on duty to others and to the community; it constitutes the foundation for moral responsibilities and obligations.
Habermas extends this analysis to respond to feminist and communitarian criticisms of impartialist, justice-based moralities (ibid., 195 215; 195 215
To generalize, a well-developed system of communitarian regulation has a well-defined industrial morality that is backed by enough communal pressure to institutionalize responsibility among its members".
T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitai Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland).
Spragens, TA, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Etzioni, A; Volmert, A; Rothschild, E (2004), Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.
T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitar Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.
Spragens, TA, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Etzioni, A; Volmert, A; Rothschild, E (2004), Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland).
Amitai Etzioni is a professor of international relations at The George Washington University and the author of The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society and The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda.
All religions are communitarian religions.
