That is Catholicism, and that is what Catholicism means by "natural law". Survival of the fittest...so make everyone sick.nickw wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:34 am Communitarianism is a theory that emphasises the moral supremacy of the common good: the good of the community as a whole.
A communitarian, thus, is someone who considers the community to be of central importance.
The rationale for this is the individual is a social being and can only flourish in the community.
i) The individual is naturally a social being who is embedded in the community. This view is referred to as the inseparability thesis.
ii) The community is morally superior to the individual. In other words, common good (social responsibilities) is preferable to individual rights. This is what is meant by the primacy thesis.
iii) Individual rights are superfluous in any community that is regulated by shared values, mutual understanding and love.
As far as the inseparability thesis is concerned, according to Plato,human beings’ social nature is necessitated by economic needs.
No individual is self-sufficient (The Republic 369b).
The individual’s social nature is designed by nature itself.
The individual is naturally a dependent being.
No individual is created to be able to provide for himself or herself, all his or her needs.
Therefore, the natural inability of the individual to personally meet all his or her economic needs, without external support, compels him or her to seek the fellowship of others.
Inherent in the inseparability thesis is also the issue of the identity of the individual. 'Radical' communitarians deny even the liberal notion
of the “unencumbered self”, since the self is always defined by the community.
McIntyre (1987, 1988) says that the individual’s life is understood only by looking at his or her actions within a story, a “narrative”.
From experience, we realise that one’s narrative converges with the narratives of other people, who then become part of one’s own narrative.
An understanding of one’s self can be attained only in the context of the community that sets up the form and shape and circumstances with the background of these narratives.
Do the people here who hate the Bible, also hate Catholicism. I think not.