#IndivHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson [from 'Emerson in His Journals' 8 November 1838] Also known for #1841_SelfReliance

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Supplementary: #TheoryTranscendentalism "Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century [including: #IndivHistoricalFigureMargaretFuller, #IndivHistoricalFigureLydiaMariaChild, #IndivHistoricalFigureAmosBronsonAlcott, #IndivHistoricalFigureFredericHenryHedge, #IndivHistoricalFigureElizabethPalmerPeabody, and #IndivHistoricalFigureTheodoreParker et al.]... Stimulated by English and German #TheoryRomanticism, the Biblical criticism of #IndivHistoricalFigureJohannGottfriedHerder and #IndivHistoricalFigureFriedrichSchleiermacher, and the skepticism of #IndivPhilosopherDavidHume [and #IndivHistoricalFigureImmanuelKant, #TheoryGermanIdealism / #TheoryPhilosophyIdealism, #IndivHistoricalFigureThomasCarlyle, #IndivHistoricalFigureSamuelTaylorColeridge, #IndivHistoricalFigureVictorCousin, #IndivHistoricalFigureGermaineDeStael et al.], the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity" #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ And #1854_Walden #IndivHistoricalFigureHenryDavidThoreau i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
This all ties into: #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp
#TheoryIndividualismPossessive "The centrality of individualism to liberalism had not gone unremarked prior to #IndivHistoricalFigureCBMacpherson's work. His distinctive contribution was to explore how a certain conception of property ownership had shaped liberal thinking about individualism. Beginning with #IndivPhilosopherThomasHobbes, Macpherson argued, one finds a tradition of political theory in which ownership is constitutive of individuality, freedom, and equality. To be an individual is to be an owner--in the first instance, an owner of one's own person and capacities, but also of what one acquires through the use of one's capacities. To be free is to be an owner. Freedom is defined in terms of independence from others, and one is independent only when one has the right to use one's property, including one's abilities, as one chooses. Even equality is linked to ownership, because being an owner of one's own person and capacities is a status that every individual can enjoy equally. In the political theory of possessive individualism society is presumed to consist of relations among independent owners, and the primary task of government is to protect owners against illegitimate incursions upon their property and to maintain conditions of orderly exchange. The notion of ownership here draws upon an understanding of property as private and exclusive, entailing the right of owners to exclude others and to use or dispose of their property as they choose.' This version of individualism is ultimately justified on the grounds that it is congruent with human nature, for human beings are portrayed as bundles of appetites that are, in principle, unlimited and not subject to rational scrutiny. A social world organized around individuals as owners will, it is said, maximize the satisfaction of such desires." (Carens, 1993, p.2) https://www.sunypress.edu/pdf/52694.pdf CARENS, J. H. (1993). 'Democracy and possessive individualism: the intellectual legacy of C.B. Macpherson'. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press. And https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442662391-013/html #IndivHistoricalFigureJamesHarrington, #IndivPhilosopherJohnLocke #CatchcryFreedomLiberty