A Discription of Contemporary Liberalism and Communitarianism.

Liberalism is the leading and background theory in contemporary political ideologies. As Bellamy states, twentieth-century liberalism has a broad area, from New Right conservatives to democratic socialists; it makes everyone seems a liberal. One of its major critics is communitarianism. Communitarianism sees individuals as strongly linking in community, and their debates with liberalisms are basically founded in the contemporary liberal John Rawls's theory, and especially focus on his milestone book "A Theory of Justice". This …

…to pursue, also they should retain their individuality as much as possible so the society can be flexible. And, as rationalists, liberals insist all the opinions of the public domain should be examined publicly. Since there are so many principles involved in liberalism, there seems no one most important leading idea that can be used as a criterion of social agreements. Hence, Rawls in his A Theory of Justice establishes such a first virtue, justice.