To some extent individualism is an asset for public health interventions that seek behaviour change at the individual level.
"Some Folks" helped inspired my main characters' feckless individualism: "Some folks get gray hairs, / Some folks do, some folks do, / Brooding o'er their cares, / But that's not me nor you".
On this page last year, the writer Timothy Garton Ash called for liberalism to reclaim its traditional meaning as "liberty under law, limited and accountable government, markets, tolerance, some version of individualism and universalism, and some notion of human equality, reason and progress".
He joined Rawls and American philosopher Robert Nozick in rejecting utilitarian rationales for sacrificing the vital interests of some individuals in furtherance of the interests of others, but he likewise assailed the extreme individualism of Nozick's libertarian principles of justice.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
During the 1960's, in fact, it was a counterculture center, a Haight-Ashbury with 10-gallon hats, and some of that individualism lingers.
I think that, thanks to our cheating, we were able to let go of some of our individualism and become a community.
In fact, American team owners tend to profit by suppressing, to some extent, their individualism, points out Stefan Szymanski, co-author of "National Pastime", a superb new book that compares the economics of the sport business in different countries.
But this would hardly clarify things: few on the left or the right would disavow "liberty under law" or "some version of individualism and universalism"; and Mr. Garton Ash's espousal of "markets" brings to mind today's conservative.
In spite of this, Zhang developed a love of money, personal freedom, self-education and sexual adventure that seemed to spring from some gene of individualism rendered only temporarily recessive by Mao's policies.
