A world of music. Glowing jar project – varázslat a lakásban (EN/HU) | from {panka} with love. Individualism. Individualism makes the individual its focus[1] and so starts "with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation. "[4] Liberalism, existentialism and anarchism are examples of movements that take the human individual as a central unit of analysis.[4] Individualism thus involves "the right of the individual to freedom and self-realization".[5] It has also been used as a term denoting "The quality of being an individual; individuality"[3] related to possessing "An individual characteristic; a quirk. Etymology[edit] In the English language, the word "individualism" was first introduced, as a pejorative, by the Owenites in the late 1830s, although it is unclear if they were influenced by Saint-Simonianism or came up with it independently.[9] A more positive use of the term in Britain came to be used with the writings of James Elishama Smith, who was a millenarian and a Christian Israelite.
The individual[edit] Liberalism[edit]
Humanitarianism. Social reform[edit] The Enlightenment idea of reform merged with an ethic of active compassion to inspire the social action of the humanitarian movement. The historian G. M. Trevelyan, in his Social History of England, explained the humanitarian movement as a product of the influence of rationalism upon Puritanism: "The rationalist movement had shaken the persecutor's sword from the hand of faith and religion had been to school with her rival reason. From Milton to Wilberforce the road lay through Voltaire. The reformers diverged in their underlying beliefs but were united in their humanitarianism. The idea that mankind could be improved by deliberate social change distinct from the conferring of charity and the doing of "good works" was relatively new. Reform distinguished the humanitarian movement from charity and philanthropy.
Individualism[edit] Prevention of cruelty to animals involved an extension of the principle to non-human animals. Conclusion[edit] Abolition of slavery[edit]
Stoicism. Philosophical system Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BCE. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia (happiness, lit. 'good spiritedness'): one flourishes by living an ethical life. The Stoics identified the path to eudaimonia with a life spent practicing virtue and living in accordance with nature. Stoicism flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century CE, and among its adherents was Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
It experienced a decline after Christianity became the state religion in the 4th century CE. History[edit] Scholars[who?] Philosophical system[edit] Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. Logic[edit] Categories[edit]