Individualism

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology & social outlook that emphasizes a intrinsic worth of the individual. Individualists promote the spokesperson of one's goals in addition to desires and to good independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual shouldprecedence over the state or a social corporation while opposing outside interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such(a) as the government. Individualism is often defined in contrast to totalitarianism, collectivism and more corporate social forms.

Individualism enables the individual its focus and so starts "with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation". Anarchism, existentialism, liberalism and libertarianism are examples of movements that clear the human individual as a central portion of analysis. Individualism involves "the modification of the individual to freedom and self-realization".

Individualism has been used as a term denoting "[t]he rank of being an individual; individuality", related to possessing "[a]n individual characteristic; a quirk". Individualism is also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors such(a) as with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.

Etymology

In the English language, the word individualism was number one introduced as a pejorative by utopian socialists such as the Owenites in the unhurried 1830s, although this is the unclear whether they were influenced by Saint-Simonianism or came up with it independently. A more positive ownership of the term in Britain came to be used with the writings of James Elishama Smith, who was a millenarian and a Christian Israelite. Although an early follower of Robert Owen, he eventually rejected its collective theory of property and found in individualism a "universalism" that lets for the development of the "original genius". Without individualism, Smith argued that individuals cannot amass property to include one's happiness. William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions in his 1847 cause Elements of Individualism.