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Written by Rufus Bruno Pereira
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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Individualism and Communalism
INDIVIDUALISM highly prioritises the wants, needs and rights of the individual against the collective good. Values attached to individualism are individual freedom and individual choice. Modern individualism is the outgrowth of the writings of John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
They emphasised an ideology where people are guided by enlightened self-interest, rationality and free choice with minimum intervention of the state in the lives of individuals. Individualism stands in contrast to generally two types of communalism.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 May 2009 )
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Written by Frank Doyle, SJ
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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Remember that the person who sows few seeds will have a small crop;the one who sows many seeds will have a large crop.Each one should give then, as he has decided, not with regret or out of a sense of duty;for God loves the one who gives cheerfully.
- 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
THE world at present is going through a traumatic period and few are escaping it. In recent years, we have been bemoaning the fate of the poor in many parts of the world, especially in what we call the developing world. But now the rich and famous are being hit as well. How long will this situation last? The optimists speak of us beginning to get back to ‘normality’ in as short a time as sometime next year, while the more pessimistic see it as a long drawn-out struggle? Does anyone really know?
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 May 2009 )
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