Confucian ideals of loyalty to family and friends and Protestant individualism, for example, may well suggest different notions of the good, and the pluralist holds that neither need be wrong.
The limits of individualism, for example, become all too clear at the end of Ivanhoe, when the eponymous Saxon hero chooses - or, really, is forced - to give up his passionate attachment to the "beautiful Jewess," Rebecca, in order to reclaim his place in King Richard's newly unified land.
Both Blair and Brown embraced individualism through Thatcherite policies, for example.
And when individualism was less feasible, in choral parts for example, Mr. Herreweghe simulated it, drawing a little swell from the sopranos here, from the tenors there.
These included incrementalism — meaning focusing on the next step, whether that's getting the next meal or shower, for example — as well as individualism, mentorship and technology, and endless curiosity.
Their observations are more spontaneous, less nuanced and considered than those in the book, without the note of regret that sometimes pops up there — for example, the idea that American individualism is isolating as well as liberating.
And though, so far, Japan's media exports don't convey an obvious or coherent set of values -- akin to the capitalist individualism that American pop culture tends to package, for example -- they might, if Japan's culture-makers wake up to the consequences of their global reach.
What does it happen, for example, when high levels of individualism and masculinity cross?
Postmodernity is typically seen as liquefying social ties and intensifying narcissistic individualism (Baumann); or as creating new forms of verticality, for example, the disciplinary cage (Foucault).
In the debate about methodological individualism these two senses are often confused (as in, for example, Popper); and it is important to keep them distinct, as the grounds for accepting them are different in the two cases.
For example, when Alison Jaggar criticized abstract individualism and other concepts of modern liberal political theory her critique was also relevant to the disinterested, detached investigator prized by the logical positivists.
