Concept
Activism
Overview
efforts to make change in society toward a perceived greater good
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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To demand in advance of voluntary desire and deliberate choice that it be demonstrated that an individual shall get happiness in the measure of the rightness of his act, is to demand the obliteration of the essential factor in morality: the constant discovery, formation, and reformation of the self in the ends which an individual is called upon to sustain and develop in virtue of his membership in a social whole…
John Dewey, Ethics
States what Activism is.
The problem which faces the modern world is the combination of individual initiative with the increase in the scope and size of organizations. Unless it is solved, individuals will grow less and less full of life and vigor, and more and more passively submissive to conditions imposed upon them. A society composed of such individuals cannot be progressive or add much to the world's stock of mental and spiritual…
Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals
Close in meaning to Activism; the term itself is not named.
A more powerful agency than even all these, in bringing about a general similarity among mankind, is the complete establishment, in this and other free countries, of the ascendency of public opinion in the State. As the various social eminences which enabled persons entrenched on them to disregard the opinion of the multitude, gradually become levelled; as the very idea of resisting the will of the public, when it…
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Close in meaning to Activism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Activism
- Feminism
- A. J. Ayer
- Michael Oakeshott
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Paulo Freire
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Camillo Berneri
- Lisa Guenther
Related ideas
- Human rights
- Imperialism
- Environmental justice
- Environmentalism
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Simple living
- Conservatism in the United States
- Patriarchy
- Rome
- Roman Empire
- Racism
- Slavery
- Pew Research Center
- Right to property
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Libertarianism
- Social change
- Civil disobedience
- Social revolution
- Right-wing politics
- Climate
- Christian right
- Oppression
- Citizenship
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.