Collectivism = Individualism[views:116][posts:0]___________________________________ [Dec 17,2024 10:28am - mayonesa ""] Conservatives like individualism, but it is the starting condition for egalitarianism, which is the basis of Leftism. Alaisdair MacIntyre had his own definition of the word “emotivism”, which gets, I think, to the nub of the problem. For MacIntryre, emotivism is an attitude whereby all moral judgements are expressions of feeling: what feels right is therefore right, for you. This relates to what Charles Taylor calls “expressive individualism” – the mindset that it is simply good, in and of itself, for an individual to express their innermost selves. https://thecritic.co.uk/in-defence-of-the-stiff-upper-lip/ Only one writer has made a serious critical study of this: https://www.amerika.org/tag/individualism/ |