The Individual and Diversification

The concept of 'the individual' that dominates Modern Political Philosophy is unsound for at least two reasons.  First, unless it connotes 'the immortal individual soul', it corresponds to no actual entity, since a human is not an a-historical given.  Second, it logically entails a contrast with a universal, and, thus, with two main possibilities.  On the one hand, if Universal is interpreted Nominalistically, the possibility of a concept of the Species as a concrete existent is arbitrarily precluded.  On the other, if it is interpreted Realistically, the Species-Member relation is arbitrarily restricted to one of mutual indifference, if not antagonism.  In either case, the tradition is inadequate to the possibility that the Species-Member relation is one of Whole-Part, and to the possibility that a Member is a product of Diversification, not of Individuation, and, hence, to the possibility that both terms are actual, and are neither indifferent nor antagonistic to one another.  On that basis, 'the individual' is exposed as the product of multiple abstractions, and, thus, as unfit to found a concrete endeavor like Political Philosophy.