Open Moral Communities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780262133654
Subjects: Urban communities; Applied Ethics; Social Organization; Social Science; Sociology; Planning; Sociology - Urban; Architecture / Planning; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Sociology - General; Communication; Communities; Community; Moral and ethical aspects; Pluralism (Social sciences); Social aspects
Description: "Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they must recruit, socialize, and discipline members; distinguish between members and strangers; collect resources; and cultivate a domain of competence.".

"The communitarian sensibility is a disposition to assess the impact of innovative opportunities and compelling moral claims on the design, repair, and dissolution of communities and communal fields with a healthy skepticism about unlikely strategies."--BOOK JACKET.