Individualism, Immortality of the Soul, Psychological Egoism

As has been previously discussed, Modern Political Individualism is an effect of the universalization, via Gutenberg, of access to the Bible.  Thus, another effect is the personalization of religion, i. e. the private reading of scriptures away from the centralized performance of rituals.  Furthermore, a fundamental theme of those books is the Immortality of the Soul, i. e. the offer of 'eternal life' to an apparently mortal being.  In other words, not only Individualism, but the Privatization and the Psychological Egoism, e. g. the Will to Live, that accompany it as fundamental principles of Modern Political Philosophy, can be traced to Gutenberg's invention.