INDIVIDUALISM – COLLECTIVISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
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adiunkt w Instytucie Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu
Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-26
Studia Politologiczne 2010;17
ABSTRACT
Notions of individualism and collectivism are present in many areas of social and
political thoughts. Individualism and collectivism are based on different ideological
values, which determine relation between individual and political system. In
individualism individual is considered to be basic category of life – independent
integrity. Each other greatest integrity than itself is recognized as set of individuals.
Collectivism regards individual as a part of greatest social integrity, which
determines its position. Antinomy between individualism and collectivism is rooted
in two different political ideologies – liberalism and socialism. Communitarianism
seeks to soften this contradiction in terms between individualism and collectivism.