Single Idea 23038

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism]

Full Idea

In so far as the individual commits himself to the principle of co-operation in a social whole does he realise his end as individual personality.

Gist of Idea

People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole

Source

report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State II

Book Reference

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.37


A Reaction

This makes for a very communitarian type of liberalism. The question is whether we create insitutions which suck our free citizens into a communal way of life, or whether that is a matter of their own initiative.

Related Idea

Idea 22039 Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity [Hegel, by Pinkard]