NEGA'flVITY OF ANARCHISM of one's immediate life-circle, where the negation of tdeologtcally-just1fted, socially divisive patterns of domination are (by hypothesis) a necessary condition for social/personal harmony. As a practical goal, the dree society> can hardly recommend itself for its probab111ty,whatever exactly probab111tymeans in such matters; but the Idea reflects itself, sometimes as a secular philosophy of love, into the daily 111'eof persons who derive from their values. If we are to discuss anarchism as a «social philosophy,> we will want it to be 'more than a set of deelings> at the core of an cldea,> and something more than an abstract resolution of power-and-powerlessness. During the course of this article I hav.e set down a number of propositions, beyond the initial propositions of the first sections, that I would llke to recapitulate here: * That the individual ls the fundamental social (but not necessarily metaphysical) reality; * "rhat voluntary agreement ls the foundation ~f cooperation; * That everyone ts responsible for their actions; * That general freedom depends on the self-discipline of each; * That the assumption of power or submission to power in any sphere is negation of the fundamental human reality; * That a morality of principles that apply the theme of powernegation affirms. the free development of individuality as the condltlon of realizing our sense of humanity; • That faith and trust toward persons is the vital ethical center of anarchy; • That anarchism represents and demands a transcendence of power /powerlessness that can be described as integral freedom; • That the alternative to the sovereignty of collectivities ts «every person decides>; • That power ls the root evil of human being; • That integral freedom ls immanent in human life and history as an always realizable potentiality; • That freedom ls the reversal of the substitution of institutional definition, institutionai being, institutional wlll, for oneself; * That the breakdown of sovereignties prepares the way for liberation from the determinism of history; • That cindlvldual> and «society> are a dynamic tension that find their ground of union in freedom; 53
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