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Full Idea
It is alleged that liberals fail to recognise that people are naturally social or communal. …But liberals believe that people form and join social relations in which they come to understand and pursue the good.
Gist of Idea
Liberals are not too individualistic, because people recognise and value social relations
Source
Will Kymlicka (Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality [1989], Conc)
Book Ref
'Communitarianism and Individualism', ed/tr. Avineri,S. /de-Shalit,A. [OUP 1992], p.184
A Reaction
This is particulary aimed at communitarians, who see liberalism as based on a distorted concept of people as isolated beings. Personally I am beginning to shift my views from Aristotelian communitarianism to modern liberalism, so I like this idea.