 | I. Primer - Art - 1975 - 246 pages
..."possessive" quality of this individualism developed from a concept of the individual as essentially a proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual is no longer seen as part of a larger social whole, or as an intrinsically moral entity,... | |
 | Marshall Sahlins - Science - 1976 - 140 pages
...possible benefits in others' powers at the least possible cost to his own. It was, Macpherson explains, a conception of the individual as essentially the proprietor...capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor as part of a larger social whole, but as owner of... | |
 | William E. Conklin - Political Science - 1979 - 350 pages
...unlimited desires. The "self" in this first conception is a "possessive individualist", someone who is "essentially the proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them."26 He is neither "a moral whole" nor a part of a larger social whole, but simply an owner of... | |
 | Charles Davis - Religion - 1980 - 216 pages
...belief in the value and rights of the individual was possessive in form, the individual being conceived as essentially the proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them. Freedom was a function of possession, so that the individual was free as owner of himself. Society... | |
 | Arjo Klamer, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow - Business & Economics - 1988 - 332 pages
...of exchange, (p. 3) The "possessive" quality of this individualism inheres in the concept of man as proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them. As a result, liberal democratic theory always focused on relations between adult men. Hobbes himself... | |
 | Shlomo Bidermann, Ben Ami Scharfstein - Religion - 1989 - 278 pages
...Individualism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 3, the possessive quality of modern individualism consists "in its conception of the individual as essentially...capacities owing nothing to society for them. The individual [is] seen neither as a moral whole, nor as part of a larger social whole, but as an owner... | |
 | Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng - Political Science - 2010 - 422 pages
...thought. . . . The original seventeenth-century individualism contained the central difficulty, which lay in its ... conception of the individual as essentially...capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor as part of a larger social whole, but as an owner... | |
 | Richard Orr Curry, Lawrence B. Goodheart - History - 1991 - 292 pages
...political scientist CB MacPherson calls "possessive individualism." The "possessive quality," he explains, "is found in its conception of the individual as essentially...or capacities, owing nothing to society for them." 60 The conservative aspect of Locke's formulation is that it excluded from political participation... | |
 | Diana Fuss - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 436 pages
...[a] central difficulty which lay in its possessive quality. Its possessive quality is found in the conception of the individual as essentially the proprietor...capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor as a part of a larger social whole, but as owner... | |
 | David Andrew Schultz - Law - 1992 - 244 pages
..."possessive individualism." The problem of the liberal democracy then, lay in its possessive quality. Its possessive quality is found in its conception...capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor as part of a larger social whole, but as an owner... | |
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Its possessive quality is found in its conception of the individual as essentially the proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor as part of a larger social whole,... 
