LONDON – With humanity’s millennia-old focus on collective survival no longer a primary concern, a few fortunate societies in the West have become preoccupied with matters of human, or individual, rights. In recent decades, we have experienced a second flowering of the individualism associated with such nineteenth-century thinkers as John Stuart Mill.
伦敦—伴随人类数千年的集体生存问题已不再是主要的担忧问题，某些西方丰裕社会开始关注人权或个体权利。近几十年来，我们经历了继19世纪思想家穆勒（John Stuart Mill）等人之后的第二次个人主义浪潮。