Individualism allows for others ' interest and well-being to be disregarded or not, as long as what is chosen is efficacious in satisfying the self-interest of the agent.

Individualism makes the individual its focus and so starts " with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation.

" Individualism is thus also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors as so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.

Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies ( a term the UK has used in the post-World War II period ) to collectivist.

Individualism allows for others ' interest and well-being to be disregarded or not, as long as what is chosen is efficacious in satisfying the self-interest of the agent.

However, Wilde advocated non-capitalist individualism: " of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under conditions of private property is not always, or even as a rule, of a fine or wonderful type " a critique which is " quite true.

Individualism is shrinking while the prospect of a “ global village ” is becoming more and more apparent.

" Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism ; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is ... With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.

Reggaeton – whose lyrics emphasize Sensuality, Individualism and sex, in graphic and sexually explicit terms – stands in sharp contrast to the tradition of Cuban underground rap, the content of which is more often characterized by social commentary on inequality and injustice.

Brown is best known for her germinal text The Politics of Individualism ( 1993 ) and for her article Does Work Really Work ?.

In both The Politics of Individualism and Does Work Really Work ?, Brown's conception of libertarian socialism is that all social bonds should be developed by individuals who have an equal amount of bargaining power, because, in Brown's view, an accumulation of monetary wealth leads to the centralization of economic and political power in the hands of a small elite, reducing the bargaining power — and thus the liberty — of the other individuals in society.

Individualism, to Emerson, is crucial to intellectual and historical achievements.

" When she embraced " anarchism without adjectives ", de Cleyre reasoned that: " Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism ; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

" Individualism, however, is viewed negatively, for it is equated with selfishness, the opposite of the empathy that is so highly valued.

In the field of ethics, Kelley has argued in works such as Unrugged Individualism ( 1996 ) and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand ( 2000 ) that Objectivists should pay more attention to the virtue of benevolence and place less emphasis on issues of moral sanction.

They include The Evidence of the Senses, which argues for a unique form of direct realism about perception ; Unrugged Individualism, which explores benevolence as a virtue ; A Life of One's Own, a moral critique of the welfare state ; and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand, focusing on the schisms within the Objectivist movement.

In 1834 he published an essay entitled " Individualism and Socialism " which, despite its message of scepticism towards both tendencies, introduced the term socialism in French political discourse.

* Individualism, a philosophy stressing the worth of individual selves

* Individualism, a focus on the individual as opposed to society

William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher, and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions, in his 1847 work " Elements of Individualism ".

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

More profound and more disturbing, however, is the moral isolation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

In proportion to the degradation of his moral worth, is the increase of his worth to them ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.