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    Ge 1) More Net Blogs ceva Blog Signin Innovative thinking about a global world Possessive individualism CB, Macpherson was s poiiesl philosopher who placed a geauinely navel interpretation on te history of political thought in The Political Theory of Postessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke whe th Canadian philosopher who influenced quite a few young scholars in the 1970s in North America and Great Britin, Macpherton offered the basis ofa strong critique of the liberalism that places essentially the whole normative book appeared in 1962. Macpherson was a certain kind of Hiveralism ‘weight on the value of the individual and ishher ihertes, and essentially no emphasis on the social obligations we all have towards each her. A first wave of eritcism of aro liberlis took this form ‘The repair that was needed [to liberal theory] was one that would bring back a sense ofthe moral worth ofthe individual, and combine it again of the moral value of community, which had been prevet in some measure in the Puritan and Lockean theory. 2) with a er [But Macpherson feels the nced to go further The present study... suggests thatthe difficukes of modera liberal- ‘democratic theory lie deeper than had been thought, thatthe original seventeenth-century individualism contained the central difficulty, whieh lay in ts possessive quality. Its possessive quality is found in its conception ofthe individual as essentially the proprietor of his own for them. The individual was seen neither as a moral whole, nor a part of larger socal whole, but person or capacities, owing nothing Wo soce as an ovmer of himself. The relation of ownership, having become for more and more men the critically important relation determining their ct full potential actual freedom and actual prospect of reaizin was read back into the nature of the individual. the individual, it was though, is inasmuch ashe is proprictr of his person and capacities, The human essence is fieedom from dependence on the wills of others, and freedom isa funetion of possession. Society becomes a lt of fee ‘equa individuals related to each other as proprietors of theit ovm ‘capacities and of what they have acquited by thie exercise, Society consists of exchange between proprietors, (3) The individualism that Macpherson identifies is of specifi sort iis possessive” individualism, What does Maepherson mean by this? Here we have the heat of the theory of possessive individualism: the individual as solely an owner of himself. Her is his formulation late in the book: |. What makes @ man hums is freedom from dependence on the wils of others. 2, Freedom from dependence on others means feedom fiom aay relations with others except those clations which the individual enters volustaely with a view to his own interest. Search Ts ot ‘Search mt CONCURSO PREFEITURA DE SAO PAULO ~ Nivel Médio EA Zr TVIDEOAULAS INEDITAS IL APOSTILAS EM PDF 1 QUESTOES ONLINE —i— 12xR$6,°7 me 2°°°2 Caran race 3. The individual i essentially the proprietor of his own person and capacities, for which he owes nothing w society Although the individual eannot alienate the whole o this propery in his own person, he may alienate his capacity to labout. 5, Human society consists of a series of market relations. o Since freedom from the wills of others is what makes a men human, each individual’ freedom can rightfully be limited only by such obligations and rules as are necessary to secure the same freedoms for others Political society ie human contrivance for the protection of the individuals property in hs person and goods, and (therefore) for the maintenance of erderly relations of exchange between individuals regarded as proprctors of themselves. (263-4) ‘The core of the book is a set of interpretive chapters on Hobbes, Locke, the Levellers, and Harrington. These chapter are careful, detailed, and closely textual and contextual. The book puts forward a futy simple theory: the British tadition of political philosophy expresses a rather particular ideology thats pre-philosophical The ideology (possessive individualism) i avery specific conception ofthe individual and histhr roles inthe social world. The philosophical theories that are built on that ideology give shape to that set of assumptions but they are ill suited to recognizing or critiquing those assumptions. Macpherson highlights the interpretive challenge of

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