During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism: a. was defined in a way that distinguished it completely from th
e idea of privacy. b. came under attack from Henry David Thoreau. c. was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency. d. hampered efforts to spread democracy because it reduced interest in suffrage. e. was a subject on which all transcendentalists agreed.
Self-sufficiency are covering conditions of being in which an individual or association needs next to zero help from, or connection with, others. self-sufficiency involves oneself being sufficient (to satisfy needs), and a self-supporting substance can keep up independence uncertainly.
These states speak to kinds of individual or aggregate autonomy.A self-sufficient economy is one that requires almost no exchange with the outside world and is called an autarky.
A postconventional level of moral development happens when an individual has the capability to form their own ethical standard even though those ethical standards MAY NOT be accepted by the society. For example, a Man who fight for Women's equality in middle east.