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Autonomy and Liberty of the Citizen Humanity, and the Sense of Community

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2011, (12), pp.112~136
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Park, Yeoun Gyu 1

1경기대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

I would like to add a new virtue of 'the Sense of community' to the study of citizen humanity. The various arguments in relation to the humanity have been mostly discussed with the virtue of autonomy and liberty. The citizen can be considered as having an whole citizenship when he goes out to the society from himself, and when he is to be familiar himself with the self-examined thought and autonomy, and when he is related to the public areas. That is, 'citizen' is completed when having the ideal type of autonomy and liberty as well as generosity, consideration, cooperation, and the like. Though the virtues of autonomy and liberty can meet the citizen humanity, these are not enough and so the Sense of community must be complemented. In a democratic society the concreteness of subject becomes significant and has a basis for its ideal. In many cases different social movements would be failed since there is no understanding of community, and they might be easily distorted to the social phenomena of authority and power. Even the root democratic movements cannot be the healthiness of movements if not holding the genuine philosophies of community. Then the right concept of community of the citizen humanity is to be a basis of the 'experience of the citizen society' by which the original virtues of autonomy and liberty is actualized. Explaining the citizen humanity with the characteristic of autonomy and liberty I thus argue the philosophical meaning of the 'Sense of community' and so find its relation of the citizen humanity. Here I will use the ideas of community of anarchism with its relational feature.

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