strategy
Promoting individualism
Description:
Creating or eliminating institutions, attitudes and modes of action to maximize independence in personal behaviour. Context:
An individual is (a) mathematically, a unit of quantity; (b) biologically, a single representative of a species; (c) psychologically, a personality; (d) in law, a legal entity; (e) in theology, a spiritual being. Claim:
Individualism is another name for allowing people to have responsibility for themselves. It leads to the emancipation of the individual and social equality on the one hand, and to opposition to hierarchic relations and the power of tradition on the other. Counter Claim:
Individualism blocks joint action by absorbing social energy into the personal realm. It breeds inherent selfishness and loss of solidarity. Broader:
Promoting Facilitates:
Facilitating individual need fulfilment Facilitated by:
Recreating individual mythProtecting individual libertiesEmpowering individual engagementEncouraging individual initiativeAuthorizing individual sovereigntyEncouraging individual skill sharingDeveloping creative individual abilitiesPreserving individual from corporate encroachment Problems:
Counter-dependencyLack of individualism
Lack of individualism in capitalist systems
Limited horizons produced by survival living
Overemphasis on self-sufficiency with respect to interdependence
Unbridled individualism
Values:
Individualism References:
Strawson, P F: Individuals Subjects:
Communication → PromotionType Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies