Difference between revisions of "Philosophical Individualism"
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{{DES | des = Individualism is merely one viewpoint in an enormous hierarchy of viewpoints ranging from Planck length to the universe. Individualism as a tenet of a philosophy transforms that philosophy into a Procrustean bed that cannot model the real world well, because the real world is not based on individuals. | show=}} | {{DES | des = Individualism is merely one viewpoint in an enormous hierarchy of viewpoints ranging from Planck length to the universe. Individualism as a tenet of a philosophy transforms that philosophy into a Procrustean bed that cannot model the real world well, because the real world is not based on individuals. | show=}} | ||
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organs | organs | ||
individuals | individuals | ||
| − | + | families | |
| − | + | societies | |
| − | + | species | |
| − | planetary surface | + | ecology |
| − | + | planetary surface | |
| − | + | planet | |
| − | + | solar system | |
| − | + | galaxy | |
| − | + | universe | |
| + | multiverse | ||
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| + | Individualist philosophers seem blind to the basic importance of evolution to philosophy: that individuals are products of evolution. This makes their philosophy as quaint and incorrect as geocentric cosmology. It is only by insisting that individuals are the center of the universe that they can arrive at heavenly spheres such as "natural rights". It's a classic case of "can't see the forest for the trees". | ||
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