Isolating Others ——Origins, Mechanisms and Evolution

Authors

  • Xilin You Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, Shaanxi, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.26.245

Keywords:

isolation, social exclusion, individual personality, collective ethics, organic solidarity, harmonious society

Abstract

The behavior of isolating others is the alienation of life self-organization of exclusion mechanism. Isolation in modern society has evolved into a daily political game pattern, and isolation, more generally, is a hidden psychological activity. This deep field of social philosophy has yet to be revealed and reflected so far. At the core of isolation is personality denigration, thus indicating the deep origin of the core concept of contemporary social science, “social exclusion”. The group custom of isolating dissidents suppresses the personality and innovation of free individuals and leads to gangs and closed rigidity of the community. Reflecting on and revealing the anti-modernization nature associated with isolation, while simultaneously indicating the institutional and mechanistic construction of China's modernized harmonious society goal. The division of labor and market exchange in modern society contains ethical implications neglected by popular understandings that emphasize individual competition: the differences formed based on functional differentiation and individual liberation in modern society not only stimulate competition, but also create an inherent need for solidarity among individuals in terms of complementary dependence and mutual attraction. The contemporary society centered on information exchange promotes this direction to a universal dependence mechanism. The modern concept of free personality is not individualism but the internal mechanism of collective social cohesion and innovative life. Exclusive isolation and its closed community no longer have the basis of a modern system.

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Published

2024-05-28

How to Cite

You, X. (2024). Isolating Others ——Origins, Mechanisms and Evolution. International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, (26), 9–21. https://doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.26.245

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Humanities, Theology, and Chinese National Studies