communitarianism
kuh-myoo-nih-TAYR-ee-an-iz-um
kəˌmjuːnɪˈteəriənɪzəmListen
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a political and social philosophy that emphasises the importance of community, shared values, and social roles in shaping individual identity and moral obligations; critical of liberal individualism's emphasis on rights-bearing autonomous selves abstracted from social context; associated with thinkers including Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, and Michael Walzer, who argue that the self is constituted by its communal attachments and that justice must be understood within particular social traditions rather than derived from context-free principles
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