This entry came, from Encyclopedia.com, May 21, 2018, and may have been written by Jurgen Kuczynski. There are some interesting, accurate passages about what Max Stirner did not like; “Stirner’s political and philosophical viewpoint was opposed to feudalism, bourgeois liberalism, German idealism as represented by Kant, Fichte and Hegel, and communism. He hated the state and abhorred all social conventions. Holding the individual to be the focal point and center of the world, he asserted that the feelings and thinking of the individual determine the whole scale of social values and there is nothing objective outside the individual, or the ego. ‘Humanity’ is nothing but an unreal, metaphysical abstraction. Since the individual who creates the world through his imagination and will is the only reality, the world belongs to the individual; the world becomes his possession.”
My response: Stirner, the loner, the genius, the nonconformist, did radically do his own thing, and flout social conventions. I do like Stirner’s primary emphasis on the individual, and I hail the assertion that the individual creates the world with his imagination and will—and by exercising his power thereby increasing his power—but there is the objective world outside of the personal, concrete lived ego> I assert that the Mother and Father are Creators, that created the world with De imagination and will being applied to raw chaos, somethingness and nothingness. But, the creator requires thought, logic and abstractions to create well, so Stirner is overlooking this aspect of creating.
The world does belong to the individual, but it also belongs to many individuals and to God too.
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