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Preferred term
political and ethical individualism
Definition
- Individualism rests on the idea that the relevant units of political or ethical inquiry are the individual human beings in question, as opposed to a society, race, class, sex, or other group. Libertarianism is a quintessentially individualist political theory.Ethical individualism holds that the primary concern of morality is the individual, rather than society as a whole, and that morality primarily concerns individual flourishing, rather than one's interactions with others. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Individualism, Political and Ethical]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_and_ethical_individualism
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