Individualism

=Individualism=

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It is a philosophy which is based on the morality, polity and society. It emphasizes the importance of the personal liberty and the independence of virtue and individual.
===It treats the concepts advocating by others only according to one’s own views and presents the form of egoism, altruism, liberalism,[| anarchism] and so on.=== ===It makes the opposite between the individual and society, and bases on the personal need and personal blessedness. On the other hand, it fights against the standard of the social value. When the individualism comes to the extremness, it will be harmful for the society because of the personal benefit.===

Some examples of Famous philosophers:

===1. [|Protagoras] -- "Antilogies", which consists of two premises: the first is "Before any uncertainty two opposite theses can validly be confronted", the second is its complement: the need to "strengthen the weaker argument". ===

[[image:3a86813d8d8de913baa167c1.jpg width="125" height="139" caption="Thomas Hobbes"]]
===3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche--Apollonian and Dionysian, death of God, eternal recurrence, master-slave morality , Übermensch, transvaluation of values, perspectivism, will to power, ressentiment, der letzte Mensch .===

From the examples, we can know that... ===All of them were philosophers, they gave some ideas about individualism. At the beginning of the philosophy, Protagoras' first opinion about individualism was ”Human being is the measurement of all the things“. It was one of the most important related way of individualism. In addition, Thomas Hobbes generalized the individualism into the humanism which will not change internally and made it become the major of morality and standard of estimating the good and evil. Thirdly, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche systemic the references of the individualism and individual became the basis of value and the standard of assessing the society. ===

The same as the examples, Ayn Rand...

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=== Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, was also a famous philosopher in America. She was influenced by John Locke who made the possess of individual into conceptualism and she realized that one has own personal droit to possess one's own things such as life, liberty and so on.She wrote some similar novels such as Anthem. Ayn Rand followed her theories to creat a character the Equality in the Anthem, and used it to emphasized her exoterias and standpoints.===

The Features of Individualism in the Western Politic Civilization
 * 1) ===Individualism is the center of the value of the western civilization===
 * 2) ===Individualism is the major contracdition between the western civilization and others civilization.===

===*In the novel Anthem, the Equaliy and the Liberty are the main characters of the novel. Both of them possess the feature of individualism. For example, the Equality follows the individualism that he discovers the eletricity secretly and he certifies his own value. Because of the individualism of the Equality, he conflicts with the concil of scholar after he finds his value in individualism.*===

The connotations of Individualism
 * 1) ===The independence of individual is the basis of the society.===
 * 2) ===Individual is the final value of the society.===
 * 3) ===The ambit among the individual, others and society.===
 * 4) ===Everyone is equivalent.===
 * 5) ===Individual should be responsible for own behavior.===

**‍‍ *The main character the equality perfectly interpretates the connotation of the individualism because he follows all of them. Firstly, the equality is independence that he can hide in the forest with liberty and take care of her. He does many thing by himself such as doing some inventions. Secondly, he achieves his own personal value because he finds his interest even though he is not allowed to do. Thirdly, the subway is an ambit between the equality and the concil of the scholar. It is a place which the equality stays secretly and does his invention. Forthly, the equality is out of the control from the concil of scholar because he thinks that everyone is equivalent. Finally, the equality is responsible for his behavior such as falling love with the liberty. When he hugs and kisses the liberty in the forest, he promises that he will care for her forever.* ‍‍**

The expressions of Individualism


 * 1) ===Liberty, equality and human rights are the personal politic appeal.===
 * 2) ===Democracy is the respect of the individual.===
 * 3) ===Consititution is the indeminify for the system.===
 * 4) ===Market economy is the acceptability and criterion for seeking the individual economy.===
 * 5) ===Christianis is redemption of the human soul.===
 * 6) ===Literature represents the individualism.===
 * 7) ===Science is individual activity which satifies the curiosity.===
 * 8) ===The quality of the life is the ambition of blessdeness.===

===‍‍ *From the first expression of individualism, we can know that liberty and equality have profound relationship. Ayn Rand used "Liberty" to be the symbols of liberty and " Equality" to be the symbol of equality to the character's name directly that she exhibits her purpose of writing distinctly. Liberty, equality and human rights are the appeal of the individual, and the Equality and the Liberty in the Anthem are the appeal of the Ayn Rand. In additon, In the novel Anthem, there is not any democracy that the concil of scholar controls everything. Ayn Rand wanted to use the story to critize the society which she lived in lost its democracy and she strongly adsired the democracy in the society. In the next place, literature represents the individualism so that Ayn Rand used this novel to represent her individualism. Furthermore, the equality likes science and he will hide himself in the subway because of the inventions. This part of the novel Anthem express the individualism of the equality. In the end of the story, the equality and the liberty fall in love with each other and gain their blessdeness, and both of them aspire their blessdeness successfully even though they are forbidden. All of this connection between the expression of individualism and the information in the Anthem can explain Ayn Rand's philosopher's theory.* ‍‍===