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Students enrolled in Moral Reasoning 22 say that when the professor lectures about Communitarian philosophy, everyone ardently takes notes...
...envision a return to the days when moms did the nurturing and pops brought home the bacon. However, there is no moral justification for treating women as having lesser rights than men, denying them the right to work outside the home and largely exempting men from parental responsibilities. The communitarian movement -- which seeks to shore up the moral, social and political foundations of society -- is closer to the mark. Communitarians, for whom I often speak, envision a family in which fathers and mothers share the tribulations and jobs of parenting and of securing a livelihood...
Though the editorial stance of the magazine stems from a Jewish ethic of individual and communitarian concerns, it strives to alleviate the problems of the world, and not just those in the American Jewish community. This anthology, like the magazine, devotes as much space to feminism, politics, culture and philosophy as it does to the topics of Israel, Judaism and being Jewish in contemporary society...
Etzioni seems animated by his own agenda: intense hostility to legal efforts by civil libertarians to restrict police behavior and uphold individual rights. He says, "I'm hard put to find any organization that is so actively opposed to communitarian issues as the A.C.L.U." The American Civil Liberties Union already has critics to spare; George Bush made it a major theme of his 1988 campaign against Michael Dukakis. Moreover, A.C.L.U. executive director Ira Glasser argues, "The problem with the Etzioni group is that they assume incorrectly that individual rights are not a public good...
...book Walzer gives the communitarian argument a new twist. He likens legitimate social critique to the reading of literature. Just as there may be no definitive best reading of a poem, Walzer argues, so neither you nor your roommate may be able to give the best interpretation of your earlier agreement. But neither the difficulty of textual criticism nor that of resolving exactly what you meant four weeks ago needs prevent your attempt to do just that. when your roommate says,"you think Madonna is disturbing--I can't work without her," you can respond by pointing out the noise...