The evolutionary origins of subjectivity and agency
The concept of individuation is at the base of a conceptual structure that runs from agency through autonomy and liberty to the idea of the state, law and political legitimacy.These concepts belong to the Geisteswissenschaften, (there isn’t a properly equivalent term in English), the intellectual disciplines concerned with intellectual and cultural entities and events, rather than the Naturwissenschaften, the intellectual disciplines, the natural sciences, that are concerned with natural entities and events.However, the form in which agency, and everything which follows from agency, is attributable to human beings is where the development has arrived but not where it began.The idea…