Experiments in Community
The six essays in this pamphlet describe what are sometimes called intentional communities. A community is called "intentional" when it deliberately adopts a way of life, a type of culture, different from that of the society which surrounds it. As such, it may be perfectionist because, observing the faults of society in general and endeavoring to avoid them, it creates a so-called "utopia," in which a specific philosophy of life can be fully carried out without obstruction from persons of different ideology. It differs from the average village, which is an accidental aggregate based on geographical propinquity.
The usual village is not without certain concepts regarding the right way of living which the members generally share, but these conceptions prevail for the most part throughout the whole contemporary social structure. The intentional community on the other hand expects all its members to act according to the way of life it has adopted. As such, it is in the world but not of it. This creates a difficult problem. The community maintains itself by commercial and other relations with the world around it; to be other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time may prove too difficult. The world gradually seeps in, but this usually occurs when the founders have been replaced by their grandchildren, who have inherited the property but not the zeal and determination of the predecessors.
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The usual village is not without certain concepts regarding the right way of living which the members generally share, but these conceptions prevail for the most part throughout the whole contemporary social structure. The intentional community on the other hand expects all its members to act according to the way of life it has adopted. As such, it is in the world but not of it. This creates a difficult problem. The community maintains itself by commercial and other relations with the world around it; to be other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time may prove too difficult. The world gradually seeps in, but this usually occurs when the founders have been replaced by their grandchildren, who have inherited the property but not the zeal and determination of the predecessors.
Experiments in Community
The six essays in this pamphlet describe what are sometimes called intentional communities. A community is called "intentional" when it deliberately adopts a way of life, a type of culture, different from that of the society which surrounds it. As such, it may be perfectionist because, observing the faults of society in general and endeavoring to avoid them, it creates a so-called "utopia," in which a specific philosophy of life can be fully carried out without obstruction from persons of different ideology. It differs from the average village, which is an accidental aggregate based on geographical propinquity.
The usual village is not without certain concepts regarding the right way of living which the members generally share, but these conceptions prevail for the most part throughout the whole contemporary social structure. The intentional community on the other hand expects all its members to act according to the way of life it has adopted. As such, it is in the world but not of it. This creates a difficult problem. The community maintains itself by commercial and other relations with the world around it; to be other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time may prove too difficult. The world gradually seeps in, but this usually occurs when the founders have been replaced by their grandchildren, who have inherited the property but not the zeal and determination of the predecessors.
The usual village is not without certain concepts regarding the right way of living which the members generally share, but these conceptions prevail for the most part throughout the whole contemporary social structure. The intentional community on the other hand expects all its members to act according to the way of life it has adopted. As such, it is in the world but not of it. This creates a difficult problem. The community maintains itself by commercial and other relations with the world around it; to be other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time may prove too difficult. The world gradually seeps in, but this usually occurs when the founders have been replaced by their grandchildren, who have inherited the property but not the zeal and determination of the predecessors.
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BN ID: | 2940150163249 |
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Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
Publication date: | 12/01/2014 |
Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #149 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 91 KB |
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