We are reluctant to let stand uncriticized a view of Individualism which in effect makes all Individualists moral reprobates and outcasts. If some action purely for the neighbor is to the glory of God then something purely for the self is equally to the glory of God, because Scripture does not rate the self lower than the neighbor, because, the law is to love the neighbor as the self and not more than the self. All this is interesting in connection with praxeology, which pertains to human action, that is, to all human action, that which is personally self-directed action as well as to social action. Praxeology, as a science, then does not, in our thinking, move from the area of virtue to the area of sin when it goes beyond social action to individual action. This individualism does not make us in the least antisocial, nor, in our opinion, sinners.
Society is concerted action, cooperation.
We shall eventually aim to show that society cannot be founded on sacrifice. It can only be founded on cooperation. Neither can it have both foundations.