Is This a Spook?

Context and nuance matter in all situations,

In the context of this blog, "spook" refers to the philosophical concept explained by Max Stirner in his magnum opus "The Ego and its Own" as an abstractions or "fixed idea" that people treat as sacred and sacrifice themselves for. A ghost that people treat as sacred though it had no actual physical or material existence.

This is a great first question,

in relation to Egoism, a "spook" as the German philosopher Max Stirner, in his work "The Ego and Its Own" or "The Unique and Its Property" or "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum" is a abstract concept that slaves a individual

in other words, a spook is a non physical concept or a cause that demands the individual slave themselves and sacrifice themselves to, they possess the individual (haha "possess" "spook" get it?)

some examples Stirner gives are: God, Morality, Religion, "Private Property" rights, "The Good Cause", and anything that demands the individual sacrifice themself for it or anything that the individual puts above themselves or their self interest