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An Individual is a biological organism, a collection of a vast number of molecules organized in a complex structure within which, as long as it persist, there occur physiological and psychological actions and reactions, processes and changes.

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The Individual is a category that is clarified not by stressing the antagonism between culture and individual, but rather by stressing their mutual reinforcement.

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The Individual is a creature comprehensively bound, the product of something else (in contrast with the subject which is a sovereign unity). It is in fact a power-effect, a relay such that power passes through the individuals it has constituted.

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The Individual is an individual not by virtue of one's difference, but ethically speaking, in the same sense as everyone else is capable of being.

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An Individual is a member of multiple social groups... thus, other than in the insane asylum, cannot be considered as a 'part' of any one overarching society.

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The Individual is a wholly unique thing which adopts a new posture towards all other things such as has never been adopted before. What one individual needs for his health is to another a cause of sickness. Thus a universally valid concept for individuals can never be established.

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The Individual is an emergent structure of relations holding between the virtual and the actual, it affirms that individuality and it gives principles for working with rather than against the creative power of that individuality.

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