Individualism
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individualism · individual freedom · individualist · individualistic liberalism · individual liberty · individualists · Anglo-Saxon individualism · an individualist · complete individualism · individual effort
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The value placed on personal liberty, self-help, and individual originality, recurring across the counter-currents discussion.
It is urged again that the need for individuality or originality, which is fostered by democratic freedom, is of trifling importance, and that civilisation owes much less to creative genius than to the collective endeavours of mankind.
[lxxvi] from his own point of view, that the existence of a large number of independent landowners, each of whom can call a comparatively small piece of land his own, will be a serious and possibly an insuperable obstacle to the nationalisation of land.
Benthamite liberalism owed half of its triumph to its coincidence with the individualism of the common law, and independently of the belief in any philosophic theory, the dogma of laissez faire has commended itself, and does commend itself to hundreds of Englishmen, and for very obvious reasons.
Law in a Free State
The doctrine of minimal State interference and maximal individual freedom, posed as one pole of the essay's central political question.
The question of the day is, Individualism or Socialism?
Even those who would abolish it (and I am one) must admit this.
We may advocate democracy because it leads straight to anarchy, and yet at the same time hold that the rule for our practical guidance is not embodied in the formula, “No Government.