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There is substantial tension between the contractarian and the communitarian models of society. This paper proposes that each of these models emphasizes a different characteristic of our human nature. The personal drive for more is the basis of contractual interactions. Social embedded-ness leads to participation in multiple overlapping communities. A person’s preference for one model or the other depends upon his or her narrative consciousness which reflects the complementarity and contradictions between the drive for more and social embeddedness. The argument in this paper is introduced with a discussion of these three characteristics of human nature.
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Tavis, T.M., Tavis, L.A. (2004). The Person, the Market, and the Community. In: Hodgson, B. (eds) The Invisible Hand and the Common Good. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10347-0_14
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