Friday, 14 September 2018

The Un-Man, the Egoist, Does Not Submit to Society's Laws So the State Excludes Him or Locks Him Up

Antithetical to Man is the Un-Man, the egoist.... to the guardians of human society, the un-man, who does not correspond or submit to its laws, is regarded as ‘inhuman’. Consequently, as Stirner writes perceptively (anticipating a whole line of Nietzschean thought), ‘the state excludes him; it locks him up, or transforms him from an inhabitant of the state into an inhabitant of the prison (inhabitant of the lunatic asylum or hospital in the case of communism)’.

--Paul McLaughlin, Anarchism and Authority: A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 145-146.

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