Freedom, Community and Function
Communitarian Lessons of Medieval Political Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3591193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cary J Nederman (0000-0001-8175-7141, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 977-986 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1964349 |
| OpenAlex | W2152644101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
The communitarian critique of liberal individualism is presently experiencing something of a decline. One of the reasons for the failure of communitarians to make a lasting impact on liberal theory may be the historical precedents to which communitarians have turned, such as Aristotle and civic republicanism. I argue that communitarian theory may more fruitfully draw upon a model of the relation between individual and community derived from the Latin Middle Ages. This approach-communal functionalism-claims that the community is essentially composed neither of individuals nor of citizens but, rather, of functional groups or parts arranged according to their contribution to the community. I consider two variants of this framework, John of Salisbury's "physiological" version and Marsiglio of Padua's "civic" account. I close with an evaluation of the relevance-and also some of the limitations-of the communal functionalist model in relation to the requirements of contemporary communitarian theory
Communitarianism · Economics · Epistemology · Function (biology · Functionalism (philosophy of mind · Individualism · Law and economics · Liberalism · Methodological individualism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relation (database · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Structural functionalism · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Le communautarisme et la question de la reconnaissance
Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture Civil Religion—Metaphysical, Not Political
The Ethical Individual
Marriage, Slavery, and Natural Rights in the Political Thought of Aquinas
Tolerance and Community
The mirror crack'd
The Puzzling Case of Christianity and Republicanism
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
De Officiis
Illustre ciuitatis et populi exemplum
Cross-Purposes
Morality and the Liberal Ideal
Council and Hierarchy
Liberalism and the Moral Life
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Contemporary Political Philosophy
Aristotelian Social Democracy
Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
Superlative Virtue
Citizenship
Marsiglio of Padua
A Duty to Kill
Community and Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Sovereignty, War and the Corporation
Aristotle and the Value of Political Participation
The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism
Knowledge, Consent and the Critique of Political Representation in Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor Pacis
Superlative Virtue
Private Will, Public Justice
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2013 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |