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Communitarian ethics / John Charvet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charvet, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political ethics.
- Communitarianism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Communitarianism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- UK, England : Ethics International Press Ltd, [2023]
- Summary:
- Ethics is understood as a social practice developed by human beings through their living together as members of actual communities. Implicit in communal membership is a mutual commitment to pursue one's good within common and binding rules. Whereas individualism holds that the rights and duties of human beings arise from their inherent worth as individuals, communitarianism says that our rights and duties arise from participation in the ethical entity that is created through communal bonds. The book derives from this ethical idea, some basic substantive norms that are valid for every political community. Secondly, it applies the ethical idea to some fundamental variations in communal forms but focuses especially on modern industrial economies and their appropriate political superstructures. The third part of the book discusses attempts to create a global ethical community in the form of a community of states that treat each other and each other's members as ethical ends, despite disagreements over the actual rights that they accord to their members. The key audience for the book is researchers and students in the fields of ethics, political philosophy/theory, social philosophy, legal philosophy, and history of political thought.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Introduction: An Overview of the Argument
- Part One: Communitarianism and Individualism in Ethics
- What is ethics?
- Two modern western theories of ethics
- Rawls also
- How not to align individual and general interests
- The altruist
- The idea of a community
- An error theory of ethics
- Individualism and communitarianism in universalist ethics
- Is communitarian ethics a contractarian theory?
- Is virtue ethics a communitarian theory?
- The conditional unconditionality of communitarian ethics
- Types of human goods
- Part Two: Substantive Communitarian Ethics in the Self-Governing Community
- A. The communitarian "contract" further considered
- B. The economic and ideological structures
- The primitive community
- The interdependent economy
- Public goods and profit-maximisation
- Self-ownership
- The place of the superstructure in the economy
- C. The political superstructure
- The relation of polity to economy
- One party rule
- The cultural identity of one-party states
- The accountability of one-party regimes and the rule of law
- Multi-party liberal-democratic regimes
- Liberal-democracy and electoral systems
- Liberalism and free speech
- Liberal values: 1). Freedom
- Liberal values: 2) Equality
- Identity politics
- Who is a member of the communitarian society?
- Part Three: A Community of States
- The outsider
- The Westphalian society of states and the principle of state sovereignty
- War and peace in Westphalian society
- The League of Nations and the United Nations
- Ideological conflict between states
- The UN Human Rights regime
- The "real" and the ideological conflict between the great powers
- The rules of a communitarian society of states
- International civil society
- States behaving badly
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Charvet, John Communitarian Ethics
- ISBN:
- 9781804411698
- 1804411698
- OCLC:
- 1410593625
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