Comparative Analysis of Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism
“The existence of human rights is, for better or worse, now part of the social world we inhabit. It is the task of sociology to understand human rights as a social phenomenon that is external to our own subjective feelings and opinions about it” (Fine 100). This essay aims to analyze two specific approaches in cosmopolitanism and communitarianism. In general people know that cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all kinds of human race belongs to a single community, based on a shared morality while communitarians believe in “balancing” the rights of individuals with the interests of the community. While this is true, other subtle differences existing between the two such as their origin, how they promote human rights and dignity and their relationship to human rights warrants a in dept look at the two approaches by comparing and contrasting them.
First off, Authoritarian or East Asian communitarianism stands behind their belief that in order to achieve social order and harmony, individual rights and political liberties are to be
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Of course it is no surprise to me that “Communitarians share the view that liberalism (the political science sense of the term), especially its focus on individual freedoms and rights, is at best a partial philosophy that leaves out the important concept of the good as communally defined” (Etzioni 129) Nevertheless, some communitarian scholars and advocates are all different as some dismiss the concept of human or individual rights altogether. Etzioni then goes on to iterate how communitarianism believes that the quest for human dignity is best secured within and through each of the distinct political societies of the international system (131). The main concern of the communitarian approach is to define the requirement that contribute to a humane and just global