Characteristics of the Unique One

The unique one (a) owns his or her life, mind, body, and self; (b) rejects any external purpose, calling or destiny; (c) refuses to be an instrument for “higher powers” or “supreme beings”; and (d) knows and asserts self as unique. Stirner’s image of the unique individual who is defined by his or her chosen identity, which constitutes his or her property, may suggest the possibility of only very tenuous and precarious forms of social relationships. What does Stirner say about the relationships between and among persons? Is there any basis for reconstructing the self-other relationship in his thought?

--John F. Welsh, Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010), 94.