ABSTRACT
This chapter re-examines the deficiencies in the communitarian account of community from a different perspective, one that is concerned with the psychology of moral agency and in particular with the importance of the dispositions. On the one hand it will be seen that this perspective does, in certain ways, address some of the deficiencies in communitarianism that have been identified. On the other hand it will be seen that this perspective is not only provided with an additional layer of intelligibility and significance in the light of an interpretation of Sartre's theory and in particular the normative notion of praxis but this perspective also contributes to an understanding of that theory and its notion of praxis. The relevance to the praxis notion of dispositions of interiorisation-re-exteriorisation and immanence-transcendence is illustrated by Sartre's portrayal of Stalin in the second volume of the Critique. The intention is to focus on those criticisms made by feminist theorists but not by communitarians.
