Obligations May Be Universal Or Particular.

Abstraction Is A Mental Process We Use When Trying To Discern What Is Essential Or Relevant To A Problem; It Does Not Require A Belief In Abstract Entities.

Obligations May Be Universal Or Particular.

It Is Precisely Because Neither Individuals Nor Small Groups Can Be Fully Self-sufficient That Cooperation Is Necessary To Human Survival And Flourishing.

Young People Today Are Being Robbed. Of Their Rights. Of Their Freedom. Of Their Dignity. Of Their Futures. The Culprits? My Generation And Our Predecessors, Who Either Created Or Failed To Stop The World Straddling Engine Of Theft, Degradation, Manipulation, And Social Control We Call The Welfare State.

To Repeat, Communitarians Maintain That We Are Constituted As Persons By Our Particular Obligations, And Therefore Those Obligations Cannot Be A Matter Of Choice.