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Discuss the rival concepts of individualism and contrasting models of freedom within Liberalism People who consider themselves to be Liberals place strong emphasis on the concepts of individualism and freedom but they have different ideas as to exactly what these concepts convey. The Classical Liberal view of the individual is that each has unique qualities and value and therefore equal worth. The individual must be viewed as a unit in themselves, as opposed to merely a part of society. In Classical Liberal thinking society is merely a 'collection of individuals' and hence the value of the individual cannot be judged numerically, as Immanuel Kant put it "you must treat each human being as an end in themselves, never a means to an end". This high value of individualism is strong within Classical Liberalism because of the positive view of the individual as rational, self-reliant and capable of making self-benefiting decisions. Therefore Classical...

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