Individualist
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13 examples of Individualist in a sentence
If you said to a modern liberal individualist, "Hey, how about a sermon?"
Then we were told that freedom is good, but that one can’t live in an
individualist
society without common concern for the communist state.
Moreover, while the force of a technological imperative turns
individualist
Westerners into accidental communitarians, it also makes them more beholden to a culture of meritocracy based on algorithmic evaluations.
In Russia cultural instincts, in which communal ideas remain more valued than
individualist
principles, help determine the success or failure of policies.
According to this view, everyone is Homo economicus: a self-interested, fully rational
individualist.
By that time, America’s innovative spirit – the love of imagining, exploring, experimenting, and creating – had been weakened by a corporatist ideology that permeated all levels of government and replaced the
individualist
ideology upon which capitalism thrives.
For Goodhart, the taproot of liberals’ hostility to migration controls is their
individualist
view of society.
In the West, the priority accorded to the
individualist
self-regarding norms underlying the Washington Consensus created a nurturing environment for growth in corruption, inequality, and mistrust in governing elites – the unintended consequences of rational-choice, me-first premises.
The Chinese and their government are wedded to a different conception of society and polity: community-based rather than individualist, state-centric rather than liberal, authoritarian rather than democratic.
It is as if an inherently decentralized and
individualist
technology had realized an anarchist vision that would have seemed utterly utopian if dreamed up by Peter Kropotkin in the nineteenth century.
Over the past two centuries, this liberal
individualist
perspective legitimized capitalism as a “natural” system populated by free agents.
He also drew on the philosophy of “personalism,” which was highly fashionable in the 1930’s, as it sought a middle way between
individualist
liberalism and communitarian socialism, and insisted that “persons” always had a spiritual dimension that materialistic liberalism supposedly failed to acknowledge.
The US, with its individualist, free-market ideology, is very different.
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