Western philosophy as created by the works of Max Weber, Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim focus was always on individual as through the individual they wanted to see the society and this is our modern society.

Whether it is methodological individualism by Weber or historical materialism by Marx or collective consciousness by Durkheim.. they go in the reverse order .. they start to see the world starting with human individual thereby resulting in a society which as per them is a modern society. This concept of doing things in the reverse has done enormous damage from other species in this world with less regard as those were still not codified in the system on how to react.
The G20 nations which follow these principles and which they wanted to be spread all around the world with the help of Breton woods institutions, but soon they realized that it is very damagaing to them and in 2005 g20 communique (http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2005/2005communique.html) they said this in their statement --"We recognized there is no uniform development approach that fits all countries. Each country should be able to choose the development approaches and policies that best suit its specific characteristics"--
I see that in a way that they have acknowledged that their western philosophy of individualism as derived from Weber Marx and Durkheim doesn't even fit all humanity and let's not even consider the other living things on earth ..
In vedas and traditions that originated in India individual was not the main focus and the gurus really inculcated that humans are a connected integral part along with other animate and inanimate things in the world and each action one performs will affect the other and inturn affect them and that was the way it was taught .