Political Science · Political Theory
Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Communitarians give more importance to group rights than to individual rights.
Reason (R): Communitarianism believes in the situated self and the community dependence of the individual.
ABoth A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A — Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is the first option.
Explanation
★Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is the first option.
★Communitarians do give greater weight to the rights and goods of the community.
★They see the group and its shared values as prior to the isolated individual.
★The reason states their belief in the situated self, embedded in community and tradition.
★Because the self is constituted by community, communitarians stress collective over individual rights.
★So the situated self directly explains the priority given to group rights.
★This sets communitarianism against the unencumbered, rights bearing individual of liberalism.
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