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 There are two key concepts in my view of communitarianism. One is the common good. The other is basic human needs.One of our problems, in my view, is that we have lost any notion of the common good. It's not the same as the good of the majority or "the greatest good of the greatest number." It includes, at the very least, the most basic needs of every individual in society. It seems to me that justice must pay attention to the common good. The problem with libertarianism is that it focuses on individual rights. The problem with utilitarianism is that in most forms it focuses on maximizing an aggregate something-or-other. I'm suggesting something else: that we develop an understanding of the common good and use it to help us define individual rights. This view assumes that the good is prior to the right -- not the other way around as Nozick and even Rawls would have it. |
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