Political abstractions have value only through the concrete individuals they serve.

Evidence

The first point is always to consider what genuine human interest fills the abstract form which one proposes as the action’s end. Politics always puts forward Ideas: Nation, Empire, Union, Economy, etc. But none of these forms has value in itself; it has it only insofar as it involves concrete individuals. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 135

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Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: States the core method of existentialist ethics: always reduce abstract political forms to the concrete human interests they serve.