Sentences with phrase «of radical individualism»

Madison's Federalist No. 10 should be seen not as a defense of radical individualism against moral majoritarianism but as a defense of republican self - government.

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In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.»

The virulent anti-authoritarian bias and radical individualism so typical of liberal Christianity these days must be overcome.

This radical individualism is reflected in every aspect of modernliving; in education, politics, economics, relationships and the media.

The current sexual totalitarianism may be politically dominant, but it is built on an unstable foundation of emotivism, hedonism, radical voluntarism, and individualism.

What distinguishes Hobbes from the classical and Christian traditions and their modern continuers is the absence of any notion of God or the Good and a corresponding radical theoretical individualism.

That our laws permit the killing of unborn children is already a sign of the barbarity which arises from radical individualism, albeit it dressed as virtue in the claim to be ensuring the «right to reproductive health».

While Immanuel Kant also made an enormous contribution with his theory of radical evil, his emphasis led more to individual rather than corporate responsibility, and thus continued the Enlightenment trend toward individualism.

• A raw individualism that conceives «freedom» as radical personal autonomy because it thinks of the human person as a twitching bundle of desires, the satisfaction of which is the full meaning of «human rights» and the primary task of government.

[There is much to be said both] for the insistence on a radical and egalitarian individualism, and for the defense of complex institutions and social bonds....

It may be, however, that one reason that «radical and egalitarian individualism» often appears to be «winning out» is that it so thoroughly permeates that part of American law, constitutional law, where we tell the story about what kind of people we think we are.

So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

«Our thinness hysteria is unique, no doubt, because it is inseparable from our unique brand of radical and radically self - defeating «individualism,» but some features of our current behavior are duplicated in other cultures, for instance in the famous potlatch of the American Northwest.

The philosophical implication is a radical form of individualism.

He described the Church as a «little boat of Christian thought» tossed by waves of «extreme» schools of modern thought - Marxism, liberalism, libertinism, collectivism and «radical individualism....

But for a variety of reasons the cloak has been more and more torn away in recent American history, leaving in its stead a radical secular individualism whose implications for social coherence are ominous indeed.

Since the 1980s, the status of land in China has been undergoing radical transformation, mirroring shifts from collectivism to individualism and from socialism to capitalism.