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Document Details : Title: Courageous or Indifferent Individualism Author(s): BELLAH, Robert N. Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Date: June 1998 Pages: 92-101 DOI: 10.2143/EP.5.2.563089 Abstract : ‘Courageous or Indifferent Individualism’ is the subject on which I have been asked to speak, and I must first attempt to interpret what the conveners of this conference had in mind in asking me to speak on this subject. First of all, individualism must be taken for granted as our fate as modern persons; but, second, there is more than one kind of individualism and we must discriminate between them. Courage is the first, though not the highest, of the classical virtues. Indifference cannot be considered a virtue in any context. |
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