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• Title:
  Organic Communities, Atomistic Societies and Loneliness
• Creator:
  Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare
• Description:
  The article distinguishes two models of human organization: the organic community and the atomistic society. It maintains that the organic paradigm stresses (a) the ideal unity of the whole; (b) internal relations; (c) teleological or dialectical processes; (d) co- or inter-dependent members (e. g. the human body or face); (e) a role-orientation; (f) living functions; (g) freedom defined as doing as you should; and (h) qualitative factors prevail.  By contrast, the atomistic model emphasizes (a) the value of individual freedom; (b) external relations; (c) mechanical or causal explanations; (d) separate “parts”(e.g. a machine); (e) a rule orientation; (f)  formal, legal, or artificial frameworks; (g) freedom defined as doing as you please; and (h) quantitative factors prevail. The article contends that the sense of individual loneliness or alienation experienced is generally much greater in the atomistic society. And since both the American family and its surrounding society are, in the main, atomisticly-structured, it follows that loneliness is more pronounced and prevalent in American society. The article concludes by offering some programmatic ideals and measures to reverse and mitigate the present tendency toward increasing loneliness in the United States.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Professor Ben Lazare Mijuskovic;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2024.11.17
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Ruch Filozoficzny; Vol. 79 No. 4 (2023): Around Monoseology. Philosophical and Psychological Confrontations with Solitude; 21-58;
  Ruch Filozoficzny; Tom 79 Nr 4 (2023): Around Monoseology. Philosophical and Psychological Confrontations with Solitude; 21-58;
  2545-3173;
  0035-9599
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RF/article/view/56239/40383
• Subject:
  organic community;
  atomistic society;
  loneliness;
  alienation;
  freedom;
  American society
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RF/article/view/56239
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text