GENUINE DIALOGUE and REAL PARTNERSHIP
Foundations of True Community
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Community is the seeking need of our age. Though few of us may actively desire what makes for genuine community, we are all one way or another on the road to true community. In our age of multiethnic, multicultural, multi-religious, and multinational diversity, this is what humanity is necessarily concerned with.. By the most varied paths and the most variegated methods we are all working to transform the Babel of voices into a great antiphonal chorus. If this chorus is to be achieved, no voice can rightly drown out another since all voices contribute to the cacophonic yet harmonious whole.
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Building Genuine Community emphasizes a notion of a community in which people are bound together by a common life situation and a common purpose without using that common purpose as an exclusionary factor that distinguishes between those who belong and those who do not belong to the community. Without being scholarly, technical, or obscure, Building Genuine Community lays the foundation for true community, which is “the seeking need of the age.” True community is difficult to define. What makes some communities thrive and others fail? True community is not an ideal or a specific goal. Rather, it is a twofold direction of movement—a movement within each particular structure of family, community, and society to discover the maximum possibilities of the confirmation of individuals as true others within that structure, as well as a movement from structure to structure toward more genuine community. Building Genuine Community proposes nothing less than to do away with the old and tired polarities of the individual versus society, individualism versus collectivism, competition versus cooperation, and free enterprise versus socialism. In place of all these ideals, this treatise confirms that otherness is the only meaningful direction of movement for friendship, marriage, family, community, and society within a democracy.
About the Author
Maurice Friedman, PhD, is a professor of religious studies, philosophy and imperative literature at San Diego State University. In his fifty-year career, he has taught at many universities and colleges. He is the author of twenty-five published books and over 150 articles for professional journals. He lives in California.