What individualism means and how it developed

[spliffizzle]

well couldn't you say that being born a american or englishmen is being part of that collective or that "state". How are we born free in america or england if we brake the law and we are punished and thrown into a dungeon?

[riverlioness]

Individuals do listen to their parents, because the majority of people share the desire to please others. This desire should go untainted by society. The people who seem to have nothing to lose and the most oppressed tend to rebel.

Determinism has never been scientifically established. However, indeterminism exists in music, and quantum physics.

[pikiwiki]

no audio.....

[kristyna321]

can anyone tell me who this guy is please

[balboarock]

his name is Alan Macfarlane.

[kgwickings]

very well put.

[zkwaerwaivbace]

excuse my impertinence, but are not all such individuals first and foremost members of the grouping "english" (or "american") and only then, as such, individuals?

a case of not being able to see one's own tree for one's own wondrously unique leafiness, it would seem...

[khlynov]

No.

For the long answer, watch the clip again.

[ezrabiggins]

Bravo, zkw. "Individualism" as a rhetoric is delusional; the reductive and paranoid 'philosophy' of readers of Ayn Rand.  But it is a useful delusion for those who have a stake in preventing communitarian poltical projects, or any questioning of Profit as the meaning of life and the exploitation and degradation of others as the ultimate expression of a person's freedom.

[mikelunz]

@ezrabiggins thats more or less a sickly form of an "individualist," type opinion, but cannot define individualism on an entire level, since individual philosophies are in the millions and exceedingly beyond definition. Helping one another (as opposed to Rands more selfish philosophies,) is of the individuals personal desire (whether for good or gain,) to benefit those around themselves as they are individually educated in the greater good for society or business (or the greater evil.)

[riverlioness]

@mikelunz

Individualism is a philosophy older than Ayn Rand. There were times, I agree, Ayn Rand didn't remain true to reasoning. Rand sometimes thought in black & white. She did well for a screenwriter in logic, but she wasn't quite Aristotle. Some of her arguments are wonderful, others strayed into fallacy.

Objectivism was a great philosophy. The value of selfishness was not a philosophy. It was an emotional demon she was fighting. It was 50/50 with Rand.

[chrispaps24]

I completely agree

[lauragabriel]

My video respose is in the right-hand column. According to Youtube, yo can authorize those videos as video-responses, so it is shown right nex to yours, as a response