The theme: Individualism in ethics; a contemporary approach

• Author: Risvan Tërshalla
• Position: State University 'Aleksandër Moisiu', Durrës, Albania
• Pages: 275-281

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ISSN 2410-759X

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Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania Vol. 1 No. 2

September 2015

The theme: Individualism in ethics; a contemporary approach

Risvan Tërshalla

State University “Aleksandër Moisiu”, Durrës, Albania

Abstract

The theme will be handled in ethical and sociological views taking in consideration the

individualism’s concept into postmodern context.

The important points to be discussed:

§ Firstly, we are going to discuss the concept of individualism in a contemporary

approach and bring some of the elements that make imposible or sometimes block

the capability of humans to socialize or to be socialized.

§ Another important point will be, to study the causes of this imposibility, the target

groups included in, the most important sourses which stop or block their capability

of adapting to the social structure.

§ At the same direction will be discussed the term and the institution of individualism,

the meaning in this context and how are and are not involved the human beings in

this institution; the manner they act.

§ Then, taking hands of scientific supplies, the essay will be focused in the causes of

the resourses: are natural or artificial ones? Are these resourses causing consiently

by people and are they addicted by the other side of the problem? Do they like being

framed or do they contibute te be socialized and to socialize the others?

The work will call in the best analists of the aera of the moment or of all the time. The

essay will be re-enforced by the analists of the area: Kant, Nietzsche, Weil, Marcuse,

Fromm ect.

Key words: individs, individualism, ethics, society, contemporary, association.

Introduction

Individualism is getting every day more, a phenomenon, even so the society tents

to the modernism. I do not mean that the modern society is oriented to the

socialization, but despite this people have the possibility to stay more to-gather.

The places and the ways are not the purpose of this topic.

Individualism every day is taking control of man’s standard of living and way of

thinking. This happens due to the widening and the narrowing of the areas we

move, we built our life. Individualism is becoming an everyday friend even we like

or don’t like it. It is an inevitable argument any more.

The individualism can be overtaken in two different ways. From one part there are

those who valuate it and like this way of being and fight to reach it, to considerate

as negative and harmful the attempts to categorize the people in this or that way of

thinking.

From them who think in this way, we mention, first Nietzsche, who in Ecce Homo,

expresses: It is terribly naive to say; the man should be this or that! The reality offers amazing

different characters, the plenty of a prodigal of transformed shapes – when a poor and workless