Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (voce comunitarismo)

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Segnalo una voce enciclopedica sul comunitarismo che trovo ben fatta ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/ ). Purtroppo è in inglese e non ho il tempo di tradurla (tra l'altro non saprei neanche come renderla con una terminologia filosofica adeguata)..... comunque, a parte qualche termine su cui ho dei dubbi, sono riuscito a capire il senso del testo. Vista la mia conoscenza dell'inglese questo vuol dire che ce la potete fare tutti.
La metto anche perché tempo fa si era parlato di emendare ed ampliare la voce comunitarismo su wikipedia, ma poi non si era fatto nulla per vari motivi tra cui la mancanza di tempo.... magari si può prendere qualche spunto da Stanford.
Di seguito il primo paragrafo della voce enciclopedia che si può trovare in integrale nel link citato precedentemente.

Communitarianism

First published Thu Oct 4, 2001; substantive revision Tue Dec 28, 2004
Modern-day communitarianism began in the upper reaches of Anglo-American academia in the form of a critical reaction to John Rawls' landmark 1971 book A Theory of Justice (Rawls 1971). Drawing primarily upon the insights of Aristotle and Hegel, political philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer disputed Rawls' assumption that the principal task of government is to secure and distribute fairly the liberties and economic resources individuals need to lead freely chosen lives. These critics of liberal theory never did identify themselves with the communitarian movement (the communitarian label was pinned on them by others, usually critics),[1] much less offer a grand communitarian theory as a systematic alternative to liberalism. Nonetheless, certain core arguments meant to contrast with liberalism's devaluation of community recur in the works of the four theorists named above (Avineri & de-Shalit 1992, Bell 1993, Berten et al. 1997, Mulhall & Swift 1996, and Rasmussen 1990) ,and for purposes of clarity one can distinguish between claims of three sorts: methodological claims about the importance of tradition and social context for moral and political reasoning, ontological or metaphysical claims about the social nature of the self, and normative claims about the value of community.[2]
This essay is therefore divided in three parts, and for each part I present the main communitarian claims, followed by an argument (in each part) that philosophical concerns in the 1980s have largely given way to the political concerns that motivated much of the communitarian critique in the first place.

1. Universalism Versus Particularism
2. The Debate Over the Self
3. The Politics of Community
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