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Originally posted by heqdvd
A community is:
collections of individuals who are bound together by natural will and a set of shared ideas and ideals. In his work titled Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains that community is not so much about unity as it is about harmony (Aristotle, trans. 1980). Harmonious groups of people are frequently described by social, religious, political, scientific and moral philosophers and scientists as groups within organizational, political or moral frames. Empirical, modern and post-modern philosophical perspectives root theory and practice in community study to present a sometimes bewildering array of definitions. Our definition is simple and embodies post modern thinking in a modern technological environment.
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You might want to give Sharon Porterfield credit for the above quote which you lifted from her paper "Towards The Development of Successful Virtual Learning Communities".
http://www.usask.ca/education/course...definition.HTM
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