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Liberal theorists such as Simon Caney[18] disagree that philosophical communitarianism has any interesting criticisms to make of liberalism. They reject the communitarian charges that liberalism neglects the value of community, and holds an "atomized" or asocial view of the self. According to Peter Sutch the principal criticisms of communitarianism are: That communitarianism leads necessarily to moral relativism. That this relativism leads necessarily to a re-endorsement of the status quo in international politics, and That such a position relies upon a discredited ontological argument that posits the foundational status of the community or state.[19] However, he goes on to show that such arguments cannot be leveled against the particular communitarian theories of Michael Walzer and Mervyn Frost.[citation needed] Other critics emphasize close relation of communitarianism to neoliberalism and new policies of dismantling the welfare state institutions through development of the third sector.[20] Opposition Bruce Frohnen – author of The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism (1996) Charles Arthur Willard – author of Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy, University of Chicago Press, 1996. |
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