The Individual and The Community
Project description
1)Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), pp.3-42

2)Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that have Shaped our World View (1991), pp.282-290

3)Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (1994), pp.43-54

The question is:
examine the tensions between the claim to individual autonomy and the obligation to conform to the expectations of the wider community. (answer with reference to one of the following issues: immigration, immunisation, obesity, same sex marriage.)