At the end of his life Husserl writes about Greece as the birthplace of spiritual Europe. Since many of us are critical of the Occident’s footprint in the world, with driven lust for power, materialism and egoism, the question arises of a search for the foundations of ancient Greek culture. Both Greek philosophy and Christianity have an emphasized individual personal appeal. How has this individualization impulse been founded and further developed? And could egoism be understood as emancipation effort gone wrong? If so, why and how? And is it true that matter has a spiritually individualizing effect? With focus on the crystallization of two basic philosophical concepts, by Aristotle, the general and the individual, we try, against the background of Husserl’s idea, to investigate the background of the European birth and its further upbringing, with bearing on our current situation.