Negation on Nostr: If individuals have their being wholly in themselves and so relate to others qua ...
If individuals have their being wholly in themselves and so relate to others qua individuals, then it is impossible for there to be an end to the relation other than mere accidental conglomeration of individual ends, which in fact means that conglomeration itself has no reality in itself but reduces to each individual in particular.
quoting note1z0w…zqmp“If the state is confused with civil society and its determination is equated with the security and protection of property and personal freedom, the interest of individual as such becomes the ultimate end for which they are united. It also follows this that membership of the state is an optional matter. “
— Hegel