All of Learn · Axis
The individual and the group
Whether you take the person or the community as the basic unit.
The plain question
When the group and the person pull in different directions, which do you weight?
The poles
- Communitarian
- We're made by our communities; shared bonds and the group's health come first.
- Individualist
- The person is the basic unit; groups exist to serve individuals, not the reverse.
What it does not measure
Not left vs right — communitarians and individualists sit right across the political map.
An axis is a spectrum, not a box. A reading places your answers toward a pole — and only when you said enough to place them; otherwise it leaves the axis open.