4.) It was illustrated that More showed individualism when he was chosen as the Lord Chancellor. What had separated him from all the other potential candidates was that he wasn't very powerful and he hated working with a party. That made him different from the rest of the candidates. That was what made him unique. It made him different from everyone else and that was they reason he was chosen as Lord Chancellor.
INDIVIDUALISM CONTRADICTED:.
1.) The humanist principle of individualism was contradicted when it said, "His father John, became a judge, and chose a legal profession for his son- More's father had chosen the profession for him, and he ended up doing what his father chose for him. It never said that More wanted a legal profession, he was simply obeying the will of his father. More was letting someone choose his future for him; he was not being his unique self or deciding what profession interests him and studying about that. .
2.) More took part in helping King Henry against Luther. He had helped with the Defense of the Seven Sacraments. Luther was a religious reformer who did not believe in what the Catholic Church was doing. Luther possessed an individualistic trait. He looked at the Church in a different perspective and took action in protecting it. To go against that would be to go against individualism. If More can't tolerate the reforms Luther is making and his ideas, then it is clear that he does not want him to think for himself. He wants Luther to not make religious reforms when it is what Luther believes it is right. If More had tolerated Luther's views, then it would not be contradicting individualism since he would have been letting him express himself.
3.) More contradicted individualism when he spent most of his time in politics from 1528 to 1529. In that time period, he barely had time to read, write or do any research at all. His job was the cause of all this. He had to face daily political challenges and subjects.
