Jim Devine writes: >> On the other hand, Western-style possessive individualism (a.k.a. >> anti-social personality disorder) does seem to have arisen with >> capitalism, somewhere between 1600 and 1700. (The first well-known >> book with this sort of ideology is Hobbes' LEVIATHAN, published in >> 1660.) Possessive individualism suggests a different kind of >> "political freedom" than democracy does.
Do you really believe that "Western-style possessive individualism" did not exist before 1600? Or do you mean that there was no ideological defense of the behavior before Hobbes, which is a different point? David Shemano
