The debates of contemporary political philosophy will ultimately focus on individualism no matter what the initial question isAs a defender of individualism, liberalism is indivisible from individualismConservatives, communitarianism, republicanism, or socialism all target the individualism of liberalismAs a response to the criticism, liberalism defends or modifies individualism, resulting in many liberalist viewpoints and perspectivesThe debates about individualism suggest that todays society labeled with modernity be but one of the possibilitiesHowever, one point is for sure, that the very existence of the various schools of thinking and their debate and conflict is a kind of value per se, and to protect this kind of value is the fundamental meaning of liberalism