22 THESES

ONE

MAN IS THE ARCHETYPE OF SOCIETY, CO-OPERATIVE SOCIAL
relationships contribute to develop individual potenti-
alities. But the development of the individual is the
measure of social progress, Collectivity presupposes
the existence of individuals. Except as the sum total of
freedom and well-being, actually enjoyed by individuals,
social liberation and progress are imaginary ideals,
which are never attained. Well-being, if it is actual, is
enjoyed by individuals. It is wrong to ascribe a collec-
tive ego to anv form of human community (viz,, nation,
class, etc.), as that practice means sacrifice of the indivi-
dual. Collective well-being is a function of the well-
being of individuals.

Two

QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SEARCH FOR TRUTH CONSTITUTE

the basic urge of human progress. The quest for free-
dom is the continuation, on a higher level—of intelli-
gence and emotion—of the biological struggle for exist-
ence. The search for truth is a corollary thereof.
Increasing knowledge of nature enables man to be pro-
gressively free from the tyranny of natural phenomena,
and physical and social environments. Truth is the con-
tent of knowledge.

THREE

THE PURPOSE OF ALL RATIONS HUMAN ENBEAVOUR, INDI-
vidual as well as collective, is attainment of freedom, in