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A world of music. Glowing jar project – varázslat a lakásban (EN/HU) 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.

Individualism

"[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] TED. 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.

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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.

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Stoicism. School of Hellenistic Greek philosophy Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy which was founded by Zeno of Citium, in Athens, in the early 3rd century BC.

Stoicism

Stoicism is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness) for humans is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or fear of pain, by using one's mind to understand the world and to do one's part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly.

Stoicism flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century AD, and among its adherents was Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

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