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Instruction: Please read the reading material, and answer the question.

Please answer the question base on the provided reading material

1) Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own Part II "The Owner" and "The Unique One"

2) The following paragraph:
Max Stirner is opposed to any abstraction. He only wants to give credit to corporeal realtiy. Therefore, any "idea" or "principle" is not good because it is opposed to the concrete, bodily reality of the individual. I understand Stirner to be somewhat like Thoreau, saying that the individual who can say "I am this or that" is already half-dead because the "I" is ever-expanding, and never reducible to any point in the spatio-temporal world. Max Stirner in the section for today argues that no idea or generality should ever be the thing that you measure your life by. You should never identify with a religion, or a state, or even a family. You are just who you are, the single "unique one." This is hard to understand. What is left of you when you take away all general terms or "ideas"? Your body. But isn't your body just like everyone else's? No, not exactly. Only you have the experience of being in your own body. You cannot be in another person's body. But what is the good of being in your own body and never being in anyone else's body? What is the good of being in a body at all? One way to answer this question is to say: when you see yourself in your body, in your specific and unique body, you have a place in the world that cannot be taken from you. You are free. You own yourself. This is not a condition that you can stay in forever, but it s a good place to start from. Anyone who tries to tell you to start from an idea like "God" or "the welfare of the majority" or "the State" is taking away your freedom.

Question:
Martin Luther said that the external body was not the real person, but only the inner spirit. We could say that Max Stirner turns Luther's idea about what is real about a person, about who a person really is, inside out. The outer man is the real you, according to Stirner, and the inner man is a ghost. In your own words, and using quotes from Max Stirner, explain how Stirner's idea of freedom is a reversal of Luther's idea

Note: The essay should be about 400 words of your own. Please answer the question base on the provided reading material. No extra sources are necessary.