Individualismus est status moralis, philosophia politica, ideologia, vel conspectus socialis quae morale hominum singularium pretium exprimit.[2][3] Individualistae suis propositis et desideriis exercendis favent, et ergo libertatem et fiduciam in se magni aestimant,[4] suadentes studia individui studiia civitatis vel gregis socialis maioris momenti habere,[4] cum illa effectui externo in unius studia a societate vel institutionibus sicut respublica ipsa impositam adversantur.[4] Individualismus totalitarianismo, fascismo vel collectivismo saepe opponitur.[5]
Individualismus individuum exprimit,[2] et ergo "in propositione individuum humanum maximi momenti in luctatione liberationis esse" incipit.[6][7]Liberalismus, existentialismus, et anarchismus sunt exempla motuum qui hominem singulum habent pro praecipua explicationis re.[7] Individualismus ergo implicat "ius humanumlibertatis et effectus sui."[8][9]
Vocabulumindividualismus adhibetur pro appellatione quae significat "Qualitatem individui exstantis; individualitatem,"[4] ad possessam "individui proprietatum; proprium" pertinens.[4] Individualismus ergo cum artificiosis et bohemianis studiis et vitae propositis consociatur ubi individuum se creare et novas res experiri solet, contra traditionem vel sententias et mores populo gratos,[4][10] et similiter in philosophicishumanistarum argumentis et ethica.[11][12]
Tucker ait: "the fact that one class of men are dependent for their living upon the sale of their labour, while another class of men are relieved of the necessity of labour by being legally privileged to sell something that is not labour. . . . And to such a state of things I am as much opposed as any one. But the minute you remove privilege. . . every man will be a labourer exchanging with fellow-labourers . . . What Anarchistic-Socialism aims to abolish is usury . . . it wants to deprive capital of its reward" (1972:404).
"The leading intellectual trait of the era was the recovery, to a certain degree, of the secular and humane philosophy of Greece and Rome. Another humanist trend which cannot be ignored was the rebirth of individualism, which, developed by Greece and Rome to a remarkable degree, had been suppressed by the rise of a caste system in the later Roman Empire, by the Church and by feudalism in the Middle Ages." "The history guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History."
"Anthropocentricity and individualism. . . . Humanism and Italian art were similar in giving paramount attention to human experience, both in its everyday immediacy and in its positive or negative extremes. . . . The human-centredness of Renaissance art, moreover, was not just a generalized endorsement of earthly experience. Like the humanists, Italian artists stressed the autonomy and dignity of the individual.""Humanism,"Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson. 1972. Instead of a Book by a man too busy to write one; a fragmentary exposition of philosophical anarchism, culled from the writings of Benj. R. Tucker. Ed. 2a. Novi Eboraci: Gordon Press. ISBN 0879680369.
Watt, Ian. 1996. Myths of Modern Individualism. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521480116.
Wood, Ellen Meiksins. 1972. Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. University of California Press. ISBN 0520020294.