{"id":35270,"date":"2018-10-31T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35270"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:37:56","slug":"in-defence-of-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-defence-of-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence of the Individual :\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/in-defence-of-the-individual-autonomy-religion-nation-4831995\/\">In defence of the Individual <\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The recent order of the National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) penalizes a popular TV channel for misrepresenting a poet in its news bulletins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The role of institutions in ensuring individual freedom.<\/li>\n<li>The role of media in deciding the image of an individual with a public life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the current state of Individual freedom?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not allowed to speak against the religious beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>For the institution of the nation state, the individual remains suspect.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8216;individual&#8217; is still vogue.<\/li>\n<li>An interpretation in needed on this regard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What was the view of Marx on individualism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Marx, capitalism robs a person of her individuality.<\/li>\n<li>One can assert her individuality when the abilities to hear, see, taste, touch, see, speak, think, imagine or create are provided.<\/li>\n<li>Capitalism denies people the resources essential for growth and to evolve as an individual.<\/li>\n<li>Marx was a critic of the political economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the modern way of enslavement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The nation state has become an agency of the economy to subjugate the self.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the Supreme Court&#8217;s verdict on privacy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court reminded the state as well as the people that individuals are not the creatures of the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the criticism on individuality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is autonomous and powerful<\/li>\n<li>A person is not merely a serviceable entity, either for the economy or for the nation state.<\/li>\n<li>She can work as per own wisdom and seek greater space for herself.<\/li>\n<li>The idea of individuality had to be refined by education, literature, art, and science.<\/li>\n<li>The works of teachers, poets, writers, artists, scientists have to produce or make available for common people to avoid misinterpretation.<\/li>\n<li>To keep individualism alive the constitutional safeguards must function properly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In defence of the Individual : Context: The recent order of the National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) penalizes a popular TV channel for misrepresenting a poet in its news bulletins. Introduction: The role of institutions in ensuring individual freedom. The role of media in deciding the image of an individual with a public life. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-defence-of-the-individual\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In defence of the Individual :\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866471},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}