The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
Dickson, Eric Joshua
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Title
The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
Author(s)
Dickson, Eric Joshua
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Richard Schacht
Department of Study
Philosophy
Discipline
Philosophy
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Political Science, General
Language
eng
Abstract
The central issues in dispute between the liberals and communitarians arise from the social nature of individuals. Communitarians claim that this aspect of our nature requires a methodology that is rooted in the traditions and customs of particular societies. The substantive conclusions of this methodology should involve public policies for achieving a community in which individuals recognize that they belong to a common pursuit of a conception of the good. Liberals reject these proposals from concerns of both cultural relativism and state paternalism. I argue that a neo-Hegelian approach is sensitive to both sides of the dispute. My approach includes particular features of our Western democratic societies while also working with freedom as the fundamental political value; hence I combine communitarian particularity with the liberal emphasis on freedom. At the same time, I combine substantive policies for social unity with individual rights under a revised Hegelian account of the concept of freedom.
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