A PLEA FOR THE USE OF THE WORDS INDIVIDUALISM AND INDIVIDUALITY.

The article discusses importance of the recovery of the proper use of the word individuality and individualism for the sane study of the political and social theories, because no other substitute for this word can be found. The word is used in the sense if representing the unique aspect or form of personality, and this appears to be its rightful meaning. It is used also as expressing the nature or conduct of those who in society act singularly, even anti-socially. It is used more frequently as if individualism, as a state of being and selfishness are synonymous terms. Individualism is spoken of as the term to express the doctrine first formulated by economist Adam Smith. Individualism is this view as is the laissez-faire one which is with it. The view on social individualism has never been enunciated, even with the incomplete dearness of the functional view, but it obviously relies on a co-operative alliance of the complemental differences of individuality in citizens and in a non-competitive individual initiative rather than on state initiative and control, or on a competitive basis, as in functionalism.