Individualism
[ɪndɪ'vɪdjʊ(ə)lɪz(ə)m] or [,ɪndɪ'vɪdʒuəlɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs.
(noun.) a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence.
Typed by Anton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.
(n.) An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness.
Typed by Aileen
Examples
- In the medieval period there was a religious individualism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip of the authority of custom and traditions as standards of belief. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It did at least set aside the individualism of Machiavellian monarchy and declare that there was a human or at any rate a European commonweal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One might point to Stirner's absolute individualism or turn to Whitman's wholehearted acceptance of every man with his catalogue of defects and virtues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We boast of an individualism which is not freedom, but rather an artificial result of the industrial state of modern Europe. Plato. The Republic.
- In short, practical individualism, or struggle for greater freedom of thought in action, was translated into philosophic subjectivism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To him democracy is a state of individualism or dissolution; in which every one is doing what is right in his own eyes. Plato. The Republic.
- Moral individualism is set up by the conscious separation of different centers of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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