Individual, Species, Atomism

The traditional depreciation of the human species is clearly delineated in what is perhaps the least traditional of systems--Spinoza's.  For, in the latter, the Mode, i. e. his version of an individual human, can transcend solidarity with other Modes, to a direct relation with God/Nature.  Furthermore, entailed in that relation is the possibilty of the immortality of the Idea of that Mode, i. e. of Spinoza's version of the traditional concept of the Immortality of the individual Soul, a possibilty that plainly violates his thesis of Mind-Body Parallelism.  So, the rigor of even this system is subordinated to an Atomism, in which the Individual is more fundamental than the Species.