Abstract

Communitarianism is a rather small philosophical school. Communitarians share the view that liberalism (in the political science sense of the term), especially its focus on individual freedoms and rights, is at best a partial philosophy that leaves out the important concept of the good as communally defined. Communitarians hold that the concept of the good should be at the core of a robust philosophy. Nevertheless, scholars and advocates that are considered communitarians differ a great deal from one another; indeed, some dismiss the concept of human or individual rights altogether.