Cornerstones of Shared Hope
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
From the Publisher
MacIntyre argues that modern institutions have marginalized the virtues by promoting the compartmentalization of our daily lives, consumerism, complacency about economic inequality, and the subordination of moral dialogue to public policy power struggle. Because he finds institutions to be just as essential as they are threatening to the sustaining of authentic social practices and the virtues they engender, the construction of social institutions that defy these four depredations that MacIntyre has identified is essential to the revival of a just society based on a shared moral understanding. This chapter provides a descriptive and theoretical account of the Community Land Trust (CLT) as a foundational institution for a just, participatory democracy capable of promoting, what MacIntyre calls, the virtues of acknowledged dependence. The CLT uses contract, property, and governance law to pursue its mission of sustaining residential socioeconomic diversity in the face of market and governmental forces favoring homogeneity. The CLT embodies a radically democratic structure that engages the voices of all involved in furthering that mission. Finally, the CLT commits to fundamental principles essential to promoting shared goods while remaining open to the lessons lived experience teaches about those goods.
Series: Ethical Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, volume 1.
Recommended Citation
Kelly, James J. Jr., "Cornerstones of Shared Hope" (2024). Book Chapters. 99.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/99
Publication Information
in MacIntyre and The Practice of Governing Institutions 123 (Dulce M. Redin et al. eds., 2024).