[445] Now let me conclude in brief. We must distinguish two things: the idea, and the ideal, of personality^a. The idea of person, of personality, is simply the nature of man: man is potentially personality because he is actually person. And this is always and in every period so. Out of this, something else has developed, under the urge of the Protestant form of the relation between man and God^b, and under the urge of the Renaissance^c idea of man as microcosmos^d, namely the IDEAL of personality, the ideal that the meaning of ethical self-realization and ultimately of human life completely and generally, is to become a personality. The consequences of this ideal of personality

are developed by me in [these lectures], when I speak about the state of mankind in our period, but I will go into it once more from the point of view of the ideal of personality. This ideal, in all its greatness, has become one of the most demonic and destructive powers in Western history^e. And so our next task will be to develop the dialectics of the ideal of personality and relate it to social ethics^f and the problem of community.