Research Catalog

Title

Community and communitarianism / Haig Khatchadourian.

Author

Khatchadourian, Haig.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 337 p. :; 23 cm.

Summary

Community and Communitarianism presents - and defends in detail - a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in "teleological communities," cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social philosophy, the book contributes significantly to ethics.

Series Statement

Conflict and consciousness ; vol. 5

Uniform Title

Conflict and consciousness ; vol. 5.

Subjects

• Caring
• Social justice
• Human rights
• Communitarianism
• Communities > Moral and ethical aspects
• Social ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Moral community. Why community? ; Good and moral community ; "The good society" : a comparative sketch -- pt. II. An ethic of caring. An ethic of caring, I ; An ethic of caring, II ; Human rights and the ethic of caring, I ; Human rights and the ethic of caring, II ; Justice and the ethic of caring ; Persons, community, and the ethic of caring -- pt. III. Human rights, justice, and moral community. Human rights and moral community ; The "institutional" role of human rights in a moral community ; Justice and moral community ; Feminist and "postmodern" challenges to communitarianism ; Conclusion.

ISBN

0820439347

LCCN

^^^97038834^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library