Mill On Individuality

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John Stuart Mill argued that individuality comes from thinking for oneself, but Marx offers the different and more compelling view that through the help of others, an individual is able to achieve self-fulfillment and self-realization. Mill writes that in developing stages of society, it’s possible that there could be too much individuality. He says that people become more valuable to themselves and also to be valuable to others when they develop their individuality. One of the main problems that he sees with society is that individual improvisation isn’t necessary for our well-being - however, the danger in that is the suppressing of our desires and impulses. Marx differs in this argument for the reason that he believed in the “uniqueness