The Concept of Communitarianism in Research on a Contemporary Political Philosophy

The aim of this essay is to provide a theoretically satisfactory definition of communitarianism, a definition which would be theoretically prolific and so fully substantial that it would allow to distinguish communitarianism from the other philosophical streams; and it would give us an answer as to why a given idea or thinker is categorized as communitarian. The essence of this goal is to show a rationally justified method of constructing the definition of communitarianism is aim will be achieved in three steps: 1. Showing that communitarianism related research has not been able to provide a theoretically satisfactory definition of the philosophy; 2. Identifying the causes of this theoretical failure; 3. Formulating a rational method for constructing the theoretically satisfactory definition of communitarianism.