PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Communitarianism, Individual And Group Rights, Deliberative Democracy
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The new ideal of community: the community already exits in the form of common social practices, cultural traditions and shared social understandings. One important issue: individual rights vs. the common good (good of the community) Self-determination: the right to choose the good life". Value pluralism: the idea that we value a plurality of conceptions of the good life". (self-determination vs. ) paternalism: the interference of the state in our best interests. Leading life from the inside: the idea that our life only goes better for us if we lead it according to our beliefs about what"s valuable. State neutrality: there is no public ranking of the value of different (justice-respecting) ways of life. The unencumbered self: the self is not unencumbered but, embedded" and situated" in social practices. So it"s false to think that it really can opt in and out of various good lives". Self-determination is exercised within roles, not outside of them.
