Individualism – Heather Choate Davis

Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 10

In Garret Hardin’s 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” he asserts that shared resources needed to sustain the life and livelihoods of a group have always been undermined—even to the point of elimination—by individuals acting in their own self-interest. Hardin’s premise is drawn from an 1833 pamphlet on medieval land usage which surmises thatContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 10”

Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4

Homo Incurvatus in Se in the 21st-Century American Individual When the Puritan John Winthrop set foot on American soil in 1630, he proclaimed, “we must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoys together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our community as members of the same body.”Continue reading “Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4”