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The concept of individualism at East Wind Community.

From: Utopian Studies  |  Date: 3/22/2006  |  Author: Kruger, Mark

Individualism and Community

The concept of Western individualism emerged as a result of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophical thought. The end of feudalism marked the passing of a social system where the accumulation of wealth and social status was based on birth. The newly emerging capitalist middle classes sought to replace those social bases with a new ideology that empowered a greater portion of society and that provided them with an avenue for the obtaining of ...

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