communitarian

Examples of communitarian in the following topics:

• Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

  • Though the descriptive words at polar opposites may vary, often in popular biaxial spectra the axes are split between cultural issues and economic issues, each scaling from some form of individualism (or government for the freedom of the individual) to a form of communitarianism (or government for the welfare of the community).
  • In this context, the contemporary American on the left is often considered individualist (or libertarian ) on social/cultural issues and communitarian (or populist) on economic issues, while the contemporary American on the right is often considered communitarian (or populist) on social/cultural issues and individualist (or libertarian) on economic issues.
  • Other axes include: the focus of political concern (communitarianism vs. individualism), responses to conflict (conversation vs. force), the role of the church (clericalism vs. anticlericalism), foreign policy (interventionism vs. non-interventionism), and freedom (positive liberty vs. negative liberty).

• Personal ethics: four ethical approaches

  • The Communitarian asks the important question, "What are the demands (duties) that the community(ies) of which I am a part make on me?
  • The Communitarian asks us to look outward, and to face up to the duties of being social creatures.
  • The key to this social transformation is the communitarian belief in balancing rights and responsibilities: "Strong rights presume strong responsibilities. " Etzioni states the Communitarian Agenda:
  • Most of the world's great religions are in this sense communitarian.
  • In the context of teams, the communitarian approach to ethics has much to commend itself.

• Ethical Issues Within a Business

  • These perspectives are utilitarian, deontological, virtuous, and communitarian approaches.
  • Finally we have communitarian ethics.

• Counterculture

  • Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class, young Americans.