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redthreadzen t1_ixt8e2m wrote

Reply to comment by TargetDroid in In classical Chinese philosophy, all actions are collective by CytheYounger

Buddhism at it's core extoles the realisation of fundamental interconnection and inderdependance.

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Tomycj t1_iy21kbl wrote

Just want to point out that individualism does not oppose the fact humans are interconnected and interdependant. It just states that the subject of rights is the individual, that the collective shall not impose itself over it.

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redthreadzen t1_iy2jfw9 wrote

Interesting. Then has a person really realised fundamental interconnection and interdependance?

As if there is a choice between indiviual imposition and interdependance within right view. Right view doesn't entertain the idea that the individual has priority over the collective, becuase right view is that the individual really doesn't exist as a seperate entity. That would be a selfish individualist point of view, rather than no self or selfless.

In much the same way that a leaf is part of the whole tree. Or an acorn is even seperate from the tree it fell from, because these thing are not things at all but rather dynamic happenings. A fundalmatally different view of matter in that, no thing is static but rather flowing from state to state. Even mountains, and universes change over time and are subject to interaction and interconection.

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