In this research, the author analyzes Derrida"s understanding of the way society is created out of a collection of individuals, how the individuals preserve their singularity and freedom within a social system and the meaning of ethics, as it comes out in his early writings. In this work, the researcher used a phenomenological method of research and Cassirer"s way of analyzing the symbolic forms as a framework to analyze the early writing of Derrida. Although it is not a common approach to combine Derrida"s philosophy with that of Cassirer"s, the researcher found that Cassirer"s ideas help to show Derrida"s unique position.