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Community: this concept refers to a group of people who share common characteristics, interests, or geographic proximity and interact with each other, often forming social bonds, norms, and a sense of belonging.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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John Rawls on Community - Dictionary of Arguments

I 521
Social Community/Social Union/Rawls: Hegel's legal philosophy, §§ 182-187, discusses preforms.
>Philosophy of law/Hegel
, >G.W.F. Hegel.
Rawls: the members of a private community, whether individuals or associations, have their own private goals that are either competing or independent of each other. Anyway, they do not complement each other. Institutions here do not assume that they have a value, their activities are not seen as good but at best as a burden. Each person therefore only joins the community in pursuit of his or her own goals. No one takes note of someone else's possessions or goods, but prefers the most efficient arrangement that gives them the greatest advantage. Public goods consist primarily of the framework conditions provided by the state.
I 522
Community members are not driven by the need to behave fairly, so the system of functioning requires sanctions.
Social nature/Rawls: the social nature of the human being is best seen as a counter-image to the private community outlined above: People do indeed share common goals and they value the shared institutions and public goods as something good in itself. We need each other as partners
I 523
...in many aspects of life and the successes and experiences of others are part of our own social life.
See Aristotelian Principle,
>Principles/Rawls, >Community/Humboldt.
Rawls: We can follow Humboldt and say that the social community makes it possible for everyone to participate in the whole of the realized possibilities of the other members.
I 527
Justice/Community/Rawls: in order to understand how the principles of justice are connected with human socialization, we can imagine a well-ordered society as a social community of social communities. Collective intentions then arise as a consequence of the fact that everyone expects everyone (including themselves) to behave according to the principles of justice.
I 528
The individual lives of individuals are, so to speak, plans within an overall plan of the community, but this overall plan does not set a superordinate goal, as e.g. in the case of a religious association, let alone any national prestige. Rather, it is a matter of the constitutional order implementing the principles of justice.
I 529
Division of labour: will of course not be abolished in a social community. After all, it's about the opportunity for each member to bring in his or her individual skills. However, it is never possible for everyone to realize their skilss to an unlimited extent.
>Division of labour.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Rawl I
J. Rawls
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005


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