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Are Easier To Build Than Maintain

Are Easier To Maintain Than Rebuild

Become Harder To Replace

Become More Real With Age

Become More Valuable Together

Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Create Belonging

Create Common Ground

Create Continuation

Create Continuity

Create Depth Over Time

Create Gravity

Create Identity

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create More Than They Consume

Create Resilience

Create Stability

Create Their Own Gravity

Gather

Have Long Memories

Invite Stewardship

Make Good Descendants

Need A Human Scale

Need Boundaries

Need Cultivation

Need Defense

Need Leadership

Need Protection

Need Recovery

Persist Through Change

Quietly Demand Loyalty

Quietly Hold The Future

Reward Commitment

Reward Conservation

Reward Continuity

Reward Gratitude

Reward Investment

Reward Maintenance

Reward Memory

Reward Participation

Reward Reciprocity

Reward Renewal

Reward Stewardship

Reward Stewardship Across Time

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is a 'second-order life' or a super-human personality. It consist of individuals in communication with a congruence of (feeling, thought and will, past memory, and future hope]. It is logically prior to the individuals and personal identities for whom it establishes social roles.

One of the more striking features of Royce's philosophy is its emphasis on communities as being logically prior to individuals. As we have seen, Royce considers the notions of truth and knowledge unintelligible for the individual unless we posit an ultimate knower of objective truth, the infinite community of minds. The notions of personal identity and purpose are likewise unintelligible unless we posit a community of persons that defines causes and establishes social roles for those individuals to embrace. The concept of community is thus central both to Royce's ethics and his metaphysics. Not just any association or collection of individuals is a community. Community can only exist where individual members are in communication with one another so that there is, to some extent and in some relevant respect, a congruence of feeling, thought, and will among them. It is also necessary to consider the temporal dimensions of community. 'A community constituted by the fact that each of its members accepts as a part of his own individual life and self the same past events that each of his fellow-members accepts, may be called a community of memory.' Similarly, 'A community constituted by the fact that each of its members accepts, as part of his own individual life and self, the same expected future events that each of his fellows accepts, may be called a community of expectation or a community of hope' (PC 248). These common past and future events, which all members hold as identical parts of their own lives, are the basis of their loyalty to the community.' (internet encyclopedia) . . . Royce stresses that the sharing of individuals' feelings, thoughts, and wills that occurs in any community (including the Beloved Community) should not be taken to imply a mystical blurring or annihilation of personal identities. Individuals remain individuals, but in forming a community they attain to a kind of second-order life that extends beyond any of their individual lives. Where a number of individuals' loyalty to a cause is coordinated in community over time, Royce speaks non-figuratively of a super-human personality at work: a genuine community is united by a guiding or 'interpreting spirit.' The interpreting spirit may on occasion be embodied by a single person such as a leader or other exemplar, but this is not always the case.

is a commonwealth: A place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, 'Racism and the Economy') Wendell Berry

is a concept of social relations that embody openness to unassimilated otherness with justice and appreciation.

For Young, community is defined as a 'concept of social relations that embody openness to unassimilated otherness with justice and appreciation' (1986: 23)...

is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting, as it were, its members. The interest of the community is the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.

The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting, as it were, its members. The interest of the community, then, is what' The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. [of Community] The Principles of Morals and Legislation BENTHAM, Jeremy (1748-1832)

is a form of harmony. Different groups of people engage in different activities and practices, but together constitute a harmonious whole, even though division of labour is necessary and there are diverse and myriad needs and interests to satisfy, coordinate, and reconcile. In short, a community functions precisely to harmonize.

For Plato, community is a good model for the individual psyche, for example, for the different roles an individual plays and assume, and for their resultant multifaceted identity. A community is thus a form of harmony. Different groups of people engage in different activities and practices, but together constitute a harmonious whole, even though division of labour is necessary and there are diverse and myriad needs and interests to satisfy, coordinate, and reconcile. In short, a community functions precisely to harmonize.

is a means to the independently specified goal of the development of each person's powers.

German ideology p. 78 'Only within a community has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions' . . . community is 'a means to the independently specified goal of the development of each person's powers.' (Capital 1: 618).

is a moral entity (in contrast with the amoral civil society of liberalism) consisting of individuals who share values and seek to manifest them institutionally.

In The Philosophy of RIght, Hegel drew a clear distinction between a community as a moral entity and the self-intered and amoral civil society of liberalism. For Hegel, community consist in a group of free individuals who choose to make a life in common because they share moral values and they seek to instantiate those values in their community projects and institutions. The hallmark of a Hegelian community is not only that moral commitments shape collective action, but that community members succeed in achieving the moral goals they set for themselves'

is a reflection of friendship whereby there is both a common bond and a recognition of separate identities.

This twofold character of friendship not only connects it to philosophy for Plato, but means that friendship can serve as a model for a political community where there is both a common bond among citizens and recognition of their separate identities.' (mary nichols)

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