“Forging a new future” Part 1 – section (v) The Individual - Autonomous Agency & Sovereignty

Let us start off by making some claims regarding the individual.

As we have already stated each individual, is, at all times, in essence, free.

In conjunction with this, each individual is an autonomous agent. This means that the individual is free to govern themselves. So being both free and autonomous, each and every one of us should be able to act howsoever we wish. We should be free to choose our own goals in life and act accordingly etc.

It should be obvious, but perhaps needs stating … that the individual is not a slave, nor a serf, nor an indentured servant. Therefore, the individual should be able to operate in the world in an unencumbered fashion – not subject to the rule of anyone else. No other person, or body, should rule over the individual.

To put it in the most simple of terms, the individual is sovereign - the individual reigns supreme.

So, to summarize the situation, the individual is free, autonomous and sovereign.

This would be an ideal position and it’s akin to the position of Classical Liberalism, or the modern day Libertarian.