Classicism, in European thought, destined man to universality. Each monadic life, closed in itself, concerned with itself, living a life that takes form in needs, passions, feelings, and interested in a world as it exists for itself, is a node of particularization. But the subject has the potentiality, and the task, of transfiguring itself into a universal subject, transcending its sensations toward their rational meaning, renouncing in itself the particularizing functioning of needs and passions, and acting in such a way that its behavior could function as a law for everyone.