For the present purposes there are two important elements to this view. Mill’s view was that human beings can, and should, develop their individuality by realizing their full potential and, thereby, flourish. However, contrary to Marx, the individual human being in Mill’s theory “is the same metaphysical individual whether in or out of society” (Thilly 1923, p. Like Marx, Mill’s theory of individualism concerns the realization of inherent properties in individuals. He also defended a moral version of individualism as individuality which is similar to, yet distinct from, Marx’s theory. Mill was a methodological individualist, in the sense that he believed that social phenomena can be reduced to, or explained with reference to, individual behavior (see, e.g., Mill 1974, pp. This is an excerpt from a manuscript on moral individualism (image).
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