There is no trace here of genuine individualism, the doctrine that there are personal values – pleasure, or knowledge, or friendship, or virtue, or self-expression in art or life – to which political and social arrangements should be subordinated. [. . .] The assumption is, on the contrary, that all these values can be realized only within and as part of the life of the Greek polis.  [299] - http://bjornostbring.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/the-birth-of-greek-individualism-isaiah-berlin/