A more profound meaning of freedom emerges here: individual freedom is freedom that is limited by individuality. Out of the uniqueness of the individual’s being, there arises a corresponding uniqueness of that which can complement and free him, a specificity of needs whose correlate is the availability of the largest possible circle of possible selections, since as one’s wishes and inner drives become more individual, it becomes that much less likely that they will find satisfaction in a narrowly bounded domain.

XREF: Connects to liberal pluralism and Isaiah Berlin's concept of negative freedom, where freedom is the absence of constraints enabling individual choice.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 646