 For Hegel, it is only in the state that the family develops into civil society and where civil society gains greater “actuality” (PR §256–57). The state is where our “concrete freedom” is realized as we conceive of ourselves in our full social and political reality (PR §260). It is only here that the individual is conceived at once as a member of a family, as a part of civil society and as a citizen of a state. While the stage where our freedom is realized most concretely, it is not the case that individual freedom is somehow a problem – our individual freedom has greatest actuality when mutually recognized by others in law. Hegel reflects that “it has often been said that the end of the state is the happiness of its citizens. This is certainly true, for if their welfare is deficient, if their subjective ends are not satisfied, and if they do not find that the state as such is the means to this satisfaction, the state itself stands on an insecure footing” (PR §265 Addition). Hegel’s state is a community where individuals and their individuality are meant to flourish.