The Individual, Society, and the State

Since I have been associated several times with the position ‘there are only individuals,’ I begin with a confession: No, this is not my position, I have also never and nowhere represented it. Only someone who has never read a word of mine, and instead projects and claims a supposedly classical liberal or libertarian position as being mine, can associate me with it.

That the whole is more than the sum of its parts is a principle of Gestalt psychology to which I feel bound. But this principle...