The process of individuation reaches the moral level in the human being, who, as an adult at least, has the potential for individual responsibility. In the development of the child, and of the species, we see the means and the responsibility, like individuation and unity, spiralling upwards. The sphere of individual responsibility has successively widened, as the extent of the unity sought has increased. This individual responsibility is a tremendous source of personal growth and motivation, and thus of energy for the civilization. We can see that, in history, the development is towards greater specialisation, greater individuation, greater recognition of the autonomy and value of the individual.
Individuation is the trend of history.
The principle of property is the expression of this, for property is not theft but responsibility. In the development of any one individual the same process is repeated. A new-born baby has marginal individuality. The Liberation theologians would appear to be partly right in saying that the individual per se does not exist, he or she is formed by social relations. But I suggest that individuation is also the goal of religious history.