more from this thinker
|
more from this text
Single Idea 7231
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
]
Full Idea
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
Gist of Idea
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it
Source
John Stuart Mill (On Liberty [1857], Ch.5)
Book Ref
Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.249
A Reaction
This is a key idea of liberalism, opposed to any idea that we should abandon our own value to that of our state. I agree, but communitarians can subscribe to this too, while disagreeing that maximum freedom is the strategy to follow.
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[individuals in a liberal society]:
22595
|
Liberty is the triumph of the individual, over both despotic government and enslaving majorities
[Constant]
|
7231
|
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it
[Mill]
|
23039
|
A true state is only unified and stabilised by acknowledging individuality
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
|
22874
|
Individuality is only developed within groups
[Dewey]
|
22601
|
Laissez-faire individualism doesn't work, especially in troublesome times
[Keynes]
|
23863
|
Only individual people of good will can achieve social progress
[Weil]
|
7977
|
Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals
[Baudrillard]
|
23104
|
Dworkin believed we should promote equality, to increase autonomy
[Dworkin, by Kekes]
|
18663
|
Modern liberalism has added personal privacy to our personal social lives
[Kymlicka]
|
23374
|
We have become attached to private life because that has become greatly enriched
[Kymlicka]
|
23085
|
The key liberal values are explained by the one core value, which is autonomy
[Kekes]
|
23092
|
Agents have little control over the capacities needed for liberal autonomy
[Kekes]
|
21120
|
The self is 'unencumbered' if it can abandon its roles and commitments without losing identity
[Sandel, by Shorten]
|
22263
|
Liberal justice means the withdrawal of the self, as transcendental or as unencumbered
[Sandel]
|
20690
|
The state fostered individualism, to break the power of family and community
[Harari]
|
21134
|
Maybe the rational autonomous liberal individual is merely the result of domination
[Shorten]
|
22831
|
Modern libertarian societies still provide education and some housing
[Charvet]
|
22839
|
Liberalism needs people to either have equal autonomy, or everyone to have enough autonomy
[Charvet]
|
22847
|
Kant places a higher value on the universal rational will than on the people asserting it
[Charvet]
|
23537
|
American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing
[Berardi]
|
24157
|
Societies should celebrate individual agency, but not mere self-interest
[Hutton]
|
24159
|
Western civilization depends on a fully free market, private property, and free speech
[Hutton]
|