If the individual is not to find the source of his decisions in the contact between the outer world and himself, in the experience, that is, which is the one unique thing that separates him from the rest of society, he ceases to have meaning as an individual in any sense that is creative.
Laski argues that individual meaning arises from personal experiences rather than societal norms.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
Other voices in this conversation
