6. Community

1. What is a community?
2. What are its unifying values?
3. What are the right relationships of the new human society?

Late 14c., from Old French comunité “community, commonness, everybody” (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative: communitas) “community, fellowship,” from communis “common, public, general, shared by all or many”. Latin communitatem “was merely a noun of quality … meaning ‘fellowship, community of relations or feelings,’ but in med.Latin it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of ‘a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen’ ” (source: www.etymonline.com).

The Latin communis, common is composed by the preposition cum, with, and munus, assignment, so that literally “doing his job along with others.” Munus is found in the Indo-European root *MA- (variants *ME-/*MAN-/*MEDH-) which expresses the idea of measurement, relationship. Note that community is cognate to “communication.”.

Etymosophy result: group ruled by mutual relations.

Secondary directions:

Religion

Ideals/Values