kind of implications must be spelled out for other spheres of life also. We can illustrate this by reference to two major questions which face the world at present: the nature of human being in society and human responsibility for the world. The problem of human society becomes immediately apparent when we recall the two forms of political order which have rivalled each other since the Enlightenment, and which in effect present a kind of coincidence of opposites: individualism and collectivism. Individualism