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It means several different ideas; one is being to feel that you are no longer attached to any other people by any type of caste, class, association, or family like your European ancestors were. The man who introduced the idea of Individualism was a man named Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville was born in Paris, France on July 29, 1805. Tocqueville conceived this new idea to describe the values and living conditions of the white Americans of the 1820's. He felt that Americans were living more solitary lives compared to the Europeans who were our ancestors. Tocqueville had also become well know for writing the book Democracy in America. The book was mainly about the American government and society, the book was very well received throughout Europe. Individualist believed in a way to maximize human freedom by abolishing all types of involuntary relationships or organizations. Americans were free to belong to any type of church or organization that they wanted to, as long as they had the means to do it. Unlike the Americans, the English had a class system. In England for example, if your father was a baker or a blacksmith then that too was to be your trade you would do for
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Emerson once wrote "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." He was the leader of an individualist movement called transcendentalism. It was more of an intellectual movement in New England. The first people involved were spiritually inclined young men. They were often ministers from rich New England families. These men were questioning puritan constraints. Emerson saw people being trapped in inherited customs and institutions. He had the ability to translate his ideas into examples that would be more reasonable to the middle class …show more content…
You would be free to have sex or love anyone who would consent to the interaction. People would be able to only own the land that they live on and occupy. There wouldn't be any type of landlords or rent for where you were living, no types of zoning regulations which interfere with housing or other social activities. If people would have been able to do this there freedom to live as they please would increase and there would be no type of housing shortages or involuntary
Emerson once wrote "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." He was the leader of an individualist movement called transcendentalism. It was more of an intellectual movement in New England. The first people involved were spiritually inclined young men. They were often ministers from rich New England families. These men were questioning puritan constraints. Emerson saw people being trapped in inherited customs and institutions. He had the ability to translate his ideas into examples that would be more reasonable to the middle class …show more content…
You would be free to have sex or love anyone who would consent to the interaction. People would be able to only own the land that they live on and occupy. There wouldn't be any type of landlords or rent for where you were living, no types of zoning regulations which interfere with housing or other social activities. If people would have been able to do this there freedom to live as they please would increase and there would be no type of housing shortages or involuntary