Individualism

Re: Individualism

I stopped accepting homework assignments when I graduated from school.


Could you please frame this in the form of a comprehensible question.


I have no idea. Who wrote Science and Ethics?

The topic proposed by socrates II appears to be rather extensive, and I feel a bit lost about where to start. But anyway, socrates II put up several questions which could be basically summarized in two: first, whether it is justified to establish a Benthemian Gov't, and second, whether or in what ways the pursuit of individualism is a justified enterprise.

Picking up the first question, I will give the following comments.

The government fashioned in the way as proposed by Bentham is a de facto authoritarian government. The purpose of a government, thought Bentham, is to secure the happiness of the society as a whole, and happiness of particular individuals, if conflicting with that of the society, will be curtailed. The imposition of the happiness of the society upon those who dissent is a distinct trait of an authoritarian government.

Turning to the second question, I would say from an intuitive standpoint the cause of individualism is by all means justified. However, whereas individualism unfetters people from a cage arbitrarily put up by the privileged, its inexorable force to disintegrate the society brings along with it some of the intractable problems exposing the society to the unfathomable perils. To weather all the potential crises, individualism has to be qualified, as those efforts made by those who advocate communitarianism.

Individualism as applied to what? That's really too broad a category.

I am, certainly, an Otherist.
Otherism is a very attractive philosophy.

I am a platonist (idealist).

(In some circumstance my claim can deviate from the idealistic proposition but the latter is the frame of reference).

I'm an iconoclastic, misanthropic sociopath.
Fit me in wherever you like.