"In contrast, people who hold an egalitarian, communitarian world-view -- one favoring less regimented forms of social organization and greater collective attention to individual needs -- tend to be morally suspicious of commerce and industry, to which they attribute social inequity.
We all know Europeans and Americans who are self-effacing and communitarian in their world view, and Asians who are fiercely independent.
One's social world, communitarians can reply, provides more than non-moral social practices like table manners and pronunciation norms it also provides some sort of orientation in moral space.
Theodore Roszak was the first to put a name to the new world of communitarian experiments, cults, spiritual entrepreneurs and competing new-age psychotherapies of San Francisco and Berkeley in the late 1960s, and his label – "counterculture" – stuck.
Insofar as we should admit rights into our understanding of the world at all, communitarians say, we should see them as part of ongoing practices of social self-interpretation and negotiation— and so as rules that can vary significantly between cultures.
In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in order to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists and Native Americans.
The '60s and '70s were a uniquely liberal period in American history, a time in which society moved sharply toward the kind of world preferred by egalitarian-communitarians and away from the kind of society preferred by individualists and hierarchists.
One man celebrates communitarian virtues like unity, the other classical virtues like honor.
The contributors to the book were simply charged with assessing to what extent there is a communitarian foreign policy and how it affects the world.
For those who fear that we live in a zero-sum world between the powerful and weak, communitarians are blindly leading us into an unequal, rights-free society.
