What philospher denies society as being an actual entity, calling society a "spook" and that "the individuals are its reality"?

BRY2K

The influential philosopher Max Stirner. He is credited as an influence on the development of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism and postanarchism. His embrace of egoism is in stark contrast to Godwin's altruism. He denies society as being an actual entity, calling society a "spook" and that "the individuals are its reality". The above assertions are from the philospher's book "The Ego and Its Own" or "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Max_Stirner Jun 09 08, 9:39 PM

truefaithmom

The philosophy of Max Stirner is credited as an influence on the development of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism and postanarchism. He advocated egoism and a form of amoralism, in which individuals would unite in 'associations of egoists' only when it was in their self interest to do so. For him, property simply comes about through might: "Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property." And, "What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing." He says, "I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing. Pray do the like with what you call my property!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Max_Stirner Jun 09 08, 9:41 PM