...the solidarity on which civil society rests can never be realized, at least for a substantial portion of the community . The question, then, is how, in a market-dominated society, pressure for a social...
...sage, civilis societas (in Cicero, for example) referred to the condition of living in a civilized political community : a community with a legal code, cities, commercial arts, and the refinements of l...
...ns for the domination of one person over another. That has to be worked out in a particular given historical community . Let us call the first of these the "separateness principle" and the s...
...e the people--as well as each one of us taken singly is at stake. Thus Robert Bellah argues for a vision of community that opposes both radical individualism, on the one hand, and a flattened-out, ho...
...e reflected quite well a major theme in American civic culture: a strong sense of entitlement, demanding the community to give more services, strongly upholding rights -- coupled with a relatively wea...
...rks of communitarianism is its sensitivity to cultural and historical differences that may differentiate one community or subcommunity from another. And in precisely that spirit, I must introduce a qu...
...egal institutions for administering the law and various public works. There must be a deeper form of ethical community , that of political community (what Hegel misleadingly called the "state"...
... meant that a fairly large number of people who might otherwise have helped to create moral and intellectual community have remained isolated from the mainstream of American politics. Without real jus...
... obviously indicating various and rather contrasting philosophical and/or political sensibilities within the community of communitarians. What I modestly could contribute to this debate is nothing mo...
...t are "leisure-preference" and "retardation of productivity-increase." Only insofar as a community disposes of its reserves, i.e., redundant capacities, does it remain capable of s...
...at government-subsidized foreigners were outcompeting America's private sector. Gradually, the high-tech community began to look elsewhere for political support. They found it among Democrats on C...
...at, according to recent inquiries, many elderly people look for opportunities to do something useful for the community . Shorter working hours facilitate such activities for many younger people, too. T...
...d of exaggerating the achievements of selfhelp and totalizing the idea of group solidarity we should connect community and community (or group) membership on the one hand with society and the status o...
...mily through educational institutions to the workplace and, indeed, beyond that to the regional and national community . And that is a very important possibility. It remains, however, merely an inchoa...
...y place. While some of the Eastern Central European countries indisputably belong to "Europe," the Community 's expansion to the East could at the same time make it impossible to finally ...
... West. What could have been more stark than the contrast between Western and Eastern Europe? As the European Community pursued new modes of integration, nationalist virulence asserted itself in more t...
...rites, "for it centers on what we believe, what we celebrate, how we live together, and who we are as a community and as a nation." Historians are likely to be surprised by this assertion, g...
...her and rather more complex way of addressing problems sometimes treated under the terms of civil society or community . (Just as a vulgar liberalism reifies individuals, a vulgar communitarianism does...
...of these rights can of course have a universalistic character and correspond to all members of the political community ; but some others will only correspond to specific social inscriptions. It is not ...
...issolution into the empire in which "Money is King" of financial markets. Instead of building up a community of European public policies, they are dissolved everywhere into the acid of dereg...
