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Political theory

the term, from Macpherson, for the seventeenth-century view of the individual as owner of his own person and capacities, owing nothing to society.

In political theory, possessive individualism refers to the term, from Macpherson, for the seventeenth-century view of the individual as owner of his own person and capacities, owing nothing to society. This meaning comes from Macpherson (1962) in The political theory of possessive individualism: Hobbes to Locke.[1]

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  1. Macpherson, C. B. (1962). The political theory of possessive individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195444018

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