Individualistic Ideology
An Individualistic Ideology is a humanist ideology that emphasizes the moral worth of human individuals and promotes individual rights and personal autonomy as fundamental organizing principles of society.
- AKA: Individual-Centered Philosophy, Personal Liberty Doctrine, Individual-First Worldview, Individualism.
- Context:
- It can establish Individual Freedom through personal choice and legal protections.
- It can promote Personal Autonomy through self-determination and individual decision.
- It can protect Individual Rights through legal frameworks and constitutional guarantees.
- It can support Personal Responsibility through self-reliance and individual accountability.
- It can maintain Individual Interests through private property and contract rights.
- It can be associated with an Individualistic Social Group through family, community, and nation.
- It can be measured by an Individualism Index Measure which correlates with generosity index.
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- It can often facilitate Economic Liberty through free markets and private enterprise.
- It can often encourage Personal Expression through creative freedom and belief choice.
- It can often enable Social Mobility through individual initiative and achievement recognition.
- It can often support Innovation through entrepreneurial activity and personal creativity.
- It can often promote Self Creation through artistic interests and bohemian lifestyles.
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- It can range from being a Classical Liberal System to being a Radical Individualism, depending on its state role.
- It can range from being a Moderate Individual Rights Framework to being an Absolute Liberty System, depending on its social obligations.
- It can range from being a Rights-Based Framework to being a Freedom-Maximizing Philosophy, depending on its liberty emphasis.
- It can range from being a Family-Oriented Individualism to being a Pure Individual Focus, depending on its group integration.
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- It can have Social Impacts on community bonds and collective action.
- It can influence Policy Formation through individual protections and liberty guarantees.
- It can shape Economic Organization through market freedom and private ownership.
- It can affect Cultural Development through personal expression and belief diversity.
- It can guide Educational Philosophy through self-directed learning and personal development.
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- Examples:
- Political Implementations, such as:
- Liberal Democracys, such as:
- Market Systems, such as:
- Philosophical Movements, such as:
- Social Applications, such as:
- Personal Development Frameworks, such as:
- Cultural Expression Systems, such as:
- Meritocratic Individualism Ideology.
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- Political Implementations, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Collectivist Ideology, which prioritizes group interests over individual rights.
- Authoritarian System, which restricts personal freedom for state control.
- Communitarian Philosophy, which emphasizes community needs over individual choice.
- Corporatism, which promotes collective organization over individual initiative.
- State Planning Framework, which limits economic freedom through central control.
- See: Political Philosophy, Individual Rights, Personal Liberty, Free Market, Civil Rights, Liberal Democracy, Constitutional System, Power Distance Index, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance Index, Overstimulation, Personal Freedom, Personal Liberty, Power Distance Index, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance Index, Overstimulation.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism Retrieved:2021-9-2.
- Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.[1] [2] Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and to value independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government. Individualism is often defined in contrast to totalitarianism, collectivism and more corporate social forms. [3] 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". Anarchism, existentialism, liberalism and libertarianism are examples of movements that take the human individual as a central unit of analysis.[4] Individualism involves "the right of the individual to freedom and self-realization". [5] Individualism has been used as a term denoting "[t]he quality of being an individual; individuality", related to possessing "[a]n individual characteristic; a quirk". Individualism is 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 such as with humanist philosophical positions and ethics. [6] [7]
- ↑ "Individualism" on Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- ↑ Ellen Meiksins Wood. Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. University of California Press. 1972. . p. 6
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- ↑ L. Susan Brown. The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism. Black Rose Books Ltd. 1993
- ↑ Ellen Meiksins Wood. Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. University of California Press. 1972. pp. 6–7
- ↑ "The leading intellectual trait of the era was the recovery, to a certain degree, of the secular and humane philosophy of Greece and Rome. Another humanist trend which cannot be ignored was the rebirth of individualism, which, developed by Greece and Rome to a remarkable degree, had been suppressed by the rise of a caste system in the later Roman Empire, by the Church and by feudalism in the Middle Ages."The history guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History"
- ↑ "Anthropocentricity and individualism...Humanism and Italian art were similar in giving paramount attention to human experience, both in its everyday immediacy and in its positive or negative extremes...The human-centredness of Renaissance art, moreover, was not just a generalized endorsement of earthly experience. Like the humanists, Italian artists stressed the autonomy and dignity of the individual.""Humanism" on Encyclopædia Britannica
2021
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opinion/individualism-united-states-altruism.html
- QUOTE: ... Individualism, as defined by behavioral scientists, means valuing autonomy, self-expression and the pursuit of personal goals rather than prioritizing the interests of the group — be it family, community or country.
Whether America’s individualism is a source of pride or concern varies. Some people extol this mind-set as a source of our entrepreneurial spirit, self-reliance and geographic mobility. Others worry that our individualism is antithetical to a sense of social responsibility, whether that means refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated during the pandemic or disrupting the close family bonds and social ties seen in more traditional societies.
Everyone seems to agree that our individualism makes us self-centered or selfish, and to disagree only about how concerning that is.
But new research suggests the opposite: When comparing countries, my colleagues and I found that greater levels of individualism were linked to more generosity — not less — as we detail in a forthcoming article in the journal Psychological Science. ...
- QUOTE: ... Individualism, as defined by behavioral scientists, means valuing autonomy, self-expression and the pursuit of personal goals rather than prioritizing the interests of the group — be it family, community or country.
2020
- http://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/individualism/
- QUOTE: Individualism is the one side versus its opposite, collectivism, that is the degree to which individuals are integrated into groups. On the individualist side we find societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after him/herself and his/her immediate family. On the collectivist side, we find societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, often extended families (with uncles, aunts and grandparents) which continue protecting them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.
For example, Germany can be considered as individualistic with a relatively high score (67) on the scale of Hofstede compared to a country like Guatemala where they have strong collectivism (6 on the scale). ...
... The United States can clearly been seen as individualistic (scoring a 91). The “American dream” is clearly a representation of this. This is the Americans’ hope for a better quality of life and a higher standard of living than their parents’. This belief is that anyone, regardless of their status can ‘pull up their boot straps’ and raise themselves from poverty.
- QUOTE: Individualism is the one side versus its opposite, collectivism, that is the degree to which individuals are integrated into groups. On the individualist side we find societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after him/herself and his/her immediate family. On the collectivist side, we find societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, often extended families (with uncles, aunts and grandparents) which continue protecting them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.
2017b
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun
- QUOTE: … Instead over the past 25 years it has been the left’s project that has collapsed. The market destroyed the plan; individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity; the hugely expanded workforce of the world looks like a “proletariat”, but no longer thinks or behaves as it once did. If you lived through all this, and disliked capitalism, it was traumatic. …
2016
- (Harari, 2016) ⇒ Yuval Noah Harari. (2016). “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.” Random House.