Individualism

An individual

The word “individual” in the book “Language,” found in the Volume Library, is treated as a word “frequently misused” and clarifies its meaning with the statement, “The word (individual) should not be used in the mere sense of person. The word is correctly used in ‘Changes both in individuals and communities.’”

An individual person is the counting of one "person" and is not the same as an individual.

It is the individual that has been endowed by his creator with certain rights. Rights are responsibilities. When you consent to granting authority to others to do that which is your responsibility or merely neglect that responsibility through sloth or ignorance and apathy the access to the exercise of those original natural individual rights shall degenerate if not be destroyed.

“Every person is a man, but not every man a person,”

“Man is a term of nature; person, of the civil law”

Individualism

Individualism is the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. But that individualism can lead to a self-centered feeling or conduct; egoism or if tempered by a daily ministration of fervent charity. As a social theory individualism has favored the freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control which is why legal charity is the enemy of liberty.

No man created himself and for the continuation of life true individualism never separates himself or his actions from the rest of humanity. Isolation may become a consequence of abused individualism as a philosophy or practice. Both actions and in action are the script of every individual and from the beginning God created the individual but also balanced that creation with the knowledge that it was not good that a man be alone and was given the command as an individual to dress and keep our natural environment.

There are those who will choose to imagine negative consequences of Individualism because they do not understand the hesitation of asking for help. The quest for independence and self reliance is to guard against the imposition of dependence upon others. During the stages of learning self-reliance some isolation of effort is important to create the confidence required to become a true member of society, adding to society, rather than simply becoming dependent upon society.

Mankind raised in a family is only isolated to gain his personal strength so that he may congregate with others in a way that strengthens society. The effort required to obtain a level of independence opens the individuals need for teamwork in society. This is magnified as men and women form an individual family.

Some imagine that individualism is selfish by its nature when in truth it is collectivism that gives rise to the selfish nature of man by its licensed dependence upon those who exercise authority one over the other in a system of democratic socialism. Once the people of the collective become accustomed to living at the expense of others and depending on the property of others for their livelihood they will begin a process of degeneration.

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and their right to choose. Without the individual there can be no society. Individualists promote the exercise of the individual's goals and desires and to value independence and self-reliance.

Society is composed of individuals and between them is only empty space. But through Methodological Individualism may alter the fate of the individual if the method becomes a value. Only when a chosen method is accepted or valued by the individual can it produce a proper effect.

If the method is based on the perfect law of liberty the effect will be liberty. If the method is based on force and the exercise of authority one over the other then the effect or outcome will be tyranny. Individuals without social virtues cannot form a free society and may by default desire to take the right to choose from other individuals.

If society does not advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group then society destroys its very foundation which includes the social bonds. Societies as opposed to mankind form as individual units of social interaction that often form to oppose unwarranted external interference.

If society seeks to make the individual a "person" or "a member, an instrument, a thing" by limiting the individual's right to choose the enemy that destroys society will come from within.

The right to choose is the ultimate separation of powers which is essential to maintain a free government. Centralization of power of choice leads to corruption whether that power is in the hands of a few or the majority.

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