5The Individual
Over the course of its development, the capitalist system has been defended according to a set of assumptions, principles and theories based on the perceived interests of the individual …. The tendency to posit the centrality of the individual has been continuous throughout the history of modern capitalism accumulation.
Michael O’Flynn (2009:1), Profitable Ideas: The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development (© Michael O’Flynn. Republished with permission of Brill Publishers, permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.)
In Chapter 2 Gods, we saw that seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke (1690[1980]) constructed the early intellectual foundations of liberalism: linking together a conceptualisation ...
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