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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"communitarianism"”.
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Socialist communitarianism and its values for contemporary society
… version of socialism and Walzer's theory of communitarianism are not irreconcilable. When amalgamated, these two theories can be made into a solid socialist communitarian ethic that provides the necessary foundations for democracy.
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
The central issues in dispute between the liberals and communitarians arise from the social nature of individuals. Communitarians claim that this aspect of our nature requires a methodology that is rooted in the traditions and customs of particular societies. The substantive conclusions of this …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… on Philosophical Foundations of Cooperative Communitarianism (1939), a full translation of which is included. As the name suggests, it was a methodological and normative communitarianism, which critically built on liberalism, Marxism and Confucianism to realise a regional political community. …
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Evaluating the impact of child agency and autonomy on parental care and supervision in the context of socio-cultural practices with specific reference to African communitarianism
… child. This is contrary to the values of African communitarianism which encourages the interest of the community to prevail over any individual interest. As a result, when both rights are placed in situations that lead them to conflict with one another, neither the child's, the parent's or the …
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Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract
… grounded in the tradition of individualism and communitarianism manifest in people's judgments about economic justice. We empirically test these hypotheses on a sample of 270 subjects, finding broad support for the theoretical framework.
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… absolutism and liberalism one therefore ‘finds’ communitarianism as a philosophy to support a right to security. The author’s ‘communitarian’, right to security is based on an expansive interpretation of ‘positive’ duties of the state, to protect, say, the rights to life of individuals from …
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Water management in Latin America: political resistance strategies and types of community. Comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
… in Latin America, and establishes whether communitarianism, communicative community or post-modern community are merely ideal-types or if they coexist in real-life communities. Most prior studies rarely address the correlation between water management approaches and the economic mainstream …
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Many Gender Gaps: Intersectionality and Cross-Group Differences in Gender's Effect on Political Beliefs
… core theories of the gender gap: compassionate communitarianism, Group Positions Theory, and financial precarity. Applying these theories to intersectional identities I demonstrate that the gender gap is not homogenous, and that the applicable driver or theory varies from one group to another. …
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New Organization Forms: An Examination of Alienation and Ideology in the Postindustrial Workplace
… organization forms with an orientation toward communitarianism would be more alienated than employees who were more inclined toward the ideology of individualism. While my hypotheses were not supported, hindsight suggests an alternative hypothesis for further study: Employees with differing …
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Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexual Identity and School Controversy, New York State, 1986-1993
… conceptions of identity. Liberalism and communitarianism, particularly expressed in school curricular debates, tend not to interrogate the varied forms of sexuality and gender. Following critiques of these two theories, I turn to postmodern theorists who address the complexity and …
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Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism
… failure of politically left-leaning notions of communitarianism.</p>
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… of the 1930s, others defend it as an ethical communitarianism resistant to any form of state politics or group identity. My argument subverts this debate by illustrating how their religiosity is based on a theory of endless self-sacrifice, one that continually wavers between personal identity …
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Towards a just community: an examination of the development of cultural citizenship rights in Canada from a communitarian perspective
… of citizenship rights are based. In particular, communitarianism has subjected liberal rights discourse to a closer examination. Communitarian theory holds that universalist principles negate any articulation of community and its internal diversity, such as cultural citizenship. It is this …
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Nietzsche’s affirmative attitude towards ‘the life-affirming type of gods’: an investigation into the positive aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion
… after his abandonment of his early ‘religious communitarianism’, Nietzsche became a ‘religious’ aristocratic individualist who set the nurturing of ‘higher types’ as his highest goal and attempted to find the way to achieve it in a certain type of gods, what I call ‘the life-affirming type of …
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As One United People: An Inclusive Communitarian Approach to Constitutional Rights in Singapore
… To correct this disjunction, I demonstrate that communitarianism does not necessarily prioritise the collective over the individual, and develop an alternative communitarian approach: the inclusive communitarian approach, consisting of two elements. First, a pluralistic constitutive conception of …
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Ethics and human nature : a reconsideration of ethical naturalism in contemporary thomist writings
… in social and cultural contexts; while the communitarianism of Macintyre remains to some extent unjustified. The basis for a more adequate defence of ethical naturalism is given in Lonergan's account of the normative structure of human self-determination. Two further writers are used to …
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Privatumo samprata Lietuvos visuomenėje /
… taking a closer look at stands of liberalism and communitarianism. Further, the analysis of different theories of privacy – right to be let alone, limited access to self, concealment of information, control of personal information, protection of parenthood, intimacy is presented to explain …
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Harmony ideology and dispute resolution : a legal ethnography of the Tibetan Diaspora in India
Communitarianism and harmony ideology have their proponents and critics, particularly as viewed through the lens of conciliation-based dispute resolution. Both features being prominent in the Tibetan Diaspora in India, I hypothesized that the strengths and weaknesses of these orientations could be …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… clean, healthy, and dirty parts of the job; and communitarianism. These logics point towards the creation of a third type of nonmarket/quasimarket space (Gibson-Graham, Cameron, and Healy, 2013). I describe several considerations for on-farm apprenticeship to lead to greater equity, reproduction …
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An analysis of the relevance of deliberative democracy, agonistic pluralism, and pluralist group theory in explaining Twitter activity during the Scottish independence referendum 2014.
… deliberative theory. Aspects of liberalism and communitarianism are also used in the empirical study as an aid to this comparison, by applying a model taken from Deen G. Freelon (2010). Uniquely, in addition to activist groups, journalists and MSPs are focused upon as key stakeholders in the …
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