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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

[individuals in a liberal society]

20 ideas
Liberty is the triumph of the individual, over both despotic government and enslaving majorities [Constant]
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it [Mill]
A true state is only unified and stabilised by acknowledging individuality [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey]
Laissez-faire individualism doesn't work, especially in troublesome times [Keynes]
Only individual people of good will can achieve social progress [Weil]
Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard]
Dworkin believed we should promote equality, to increase autonomy [Dworkin, by Kekes]
Modern liberalism has added personal privacy to our personal social lives [Kymlicka]
We have become attached to private life because that has become greatly enriched [Kymlicka]
The key liberal values are explained by the one core value, which is autonomy [Kekes]
Agents have little control over the capacities needed for liberal autonomy [Kekes]
The self is 'unencumbered' if it can abandon its roles and commitments without losing identity [Sandel, by Shorten]
Liberal justice means the withdrawal of the self, as transcendental or as unencumbered [Sandel]
The state fostered individualism, to break the power of family and community [Harari]
Maybe the rational autonomous liberal individual is merely the result of domination [Shorten]
Modern libertarian societies still provide education and some housing [Charvet]
Liberalism needs people to either have equal autonomy, or everyone to have enough autonomy [Charvet]
Kant places a higher value on the universal rational will than on the people asserting it [Charvet]
American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing [Berardi]