Communal priority

Traditions that treat membership as a source of duties that can outweigh a preference to be left alone.

Aristotle’s political animal, modern communitarian criticism of liberal individualism, and Confucian role ethics are not the same view. They share a refusal to start from an unsituated individual and then add other people as optional. The pole records that refusal. It does not record conformity, nationalism, or a party.

Six axes

• Social life

Philosophers

• Aristotle
• Confucius
• Hannah Arendt

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Communitarianism”