ABSTRACT
The subject of this book is the relationship between choice and individuality. It claims that the ability to engage in the full range of choice-making is possessed only by individuals; therefore, evidently, individuality is a condition for choice (at least in its full sense). But then again, what individuality is depends on the choice-making ability of individuals. The starting-point for understanding the necessary connection between choice and individuality (and so for understanding what each of them is) is the apparently simple claim that we choose among things that we accept and take seriously as having their own independent existence. That is, we choose what we choose for the way it actually is for us. However, the claim turns out to be anything but simple, for it necessarily involves us in attempting to understand how we manage to apprehend things in the world. This requires recognizing that the world and everything in it (including other individuals) is present to us only through the unity of our senses in perception.
