Who’s autonomous now?

Abstract

«... society – as distinct from any plurality of individuals – is an abstract and, as such, is subject to our definition, while the individual is the primary concrete, prior to all definition, and his basic good is more or less known. Thus the unknown in our problem is the so-called common or public good and its potentially superior claims, to which the individual good must or might sometimes be sacrificed ...» Hans Jonas 1969 [1]