When various combinations of these qualities are made they define groups of certain people as well as individuals.
This process defines individuals to others and themselves.
Locke and Mill also argued that we cannot define individuals.
They may not be intelligent in the way we define intelligence, not as individuals, anyway.
In Faulkner's highly localized world, it is the town that defines individuals and gives them their sense of identity.
Yet what the show fails to do (and what the movie, whatever its shortcomings, certainly did) is establish fully defined individuals.
Each has particular traits and qualities, which seem to define most individuals within them.
The concept of the social entrepreneur has emerged recently to define individuals who work to achieve community or social benefits, not just a profit motive.