Full Idea
In so far as the individual commits himself to the principle of co-operation in a social whole does he realise his end as individual personality.
Gist of Idea
People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole
Source
report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State II
Book Reference
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.37
A Reaction
This makes for a very communitarian type of liberalism. The question is whether we create insitutions which suck our free citizens into a communal way of life, or whether that is a matter of their own initiative.
Related Idea
Idea 22039 Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity [Hegel, by Pinkard]