COMMUNITY
"No man is an island." It means we the humans born live and die in the community. Community has its role to bring up a human to the society as it wishes. We cannot live without community because we all dependent the other to satisfy our needs. The best example is barter system. As we have seen above that we born, live and die in the community, actually what is community? I hope we can give different definitions to community. "Social groups of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage."[1] So community is a place where people live together, have some common rules and following long years of tradition. As a human, community plays an initial role to learn many things for our daily life in the world. Blessed Criyac Elias Chavara one of the social reformers in 18th century of Kerala and the founding Father of C.M.I. religious congregation once said "The strength of the community is not the thickness of its wall but in the unity of the members living in it." So community is a fact which helps us to have unity between the human beings.
"Community in moral philosophy is a crucial for one's chances for acquiring the virtues, and of displaying them."[2] How you are with different people will depend on their social relationship to you. Different virtues may be acquired on whether you are dealing with friends, family, school, work colleagues and so on. In an ethical community, it is easy to say what man must do, what are the duties he has to fulfill in order to be virtuous; he has simply to follow the well-known and explicit rules of his own situation. The categorical imperative tells you to respect all equally and source of reason and God's will tells you that all are equally God's children. Community is a place where we all obey rules and live with morality. After 6 years of my seminary life I can say that community is the place where we have good models to cultivate virtues and morality. It is a place to develop and extent our talents and social relationships. Let us be the promoters of the community life.
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