The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1024612627

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-166627

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Spykman, Nicholas J. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124229867

Title:: The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: XXIX, 297 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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MONEY AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY 225 C- 1C- le ~f 2h Is, Jl ut di- rm ad td- \n- Je. la- . of nt. vas aer ‘he be as- | SO the ta op- ‘08~ ne- thing stable. The right to a part of the product of common land was under primitive conditions dependent on an ac- tive participation in the cultivation and the harvesting of crops. For other forms of property, efficient use was the only basis for a title. If the child wants to possess an ob- ject because it stimulates his interest, he is usually satis- fied with looking at it attentively and touching it. If that desire is satisfied, he usually discards it. Among primitive tribes, possession usually does not involve more than a brief relationship of action or enjoyment, and the object so possessed is thrown away the next minute with com- plete indifference. A concept of possession which does not imply some ac- tivity or other is a mere abstraction. It develops out of the former merely because the relationships between the possessor and his possession become more certain, more fixed, and more durable. The mere momentary relationship changes into a permanent possibility of realizing these re- lationships, into a certainty of being able to enjoy the ob- ject anew each time it is desired. But possession is not something qualitatively and substantially new over and above the single cases of actual enjoyment. Property as a juristic concept stands for something more than the sin- gle rights to and enjoyments of the object, but the totality of all possible and all actual enjoyments covers the con- cept completely. It means the absolute sum of all possible rights, and for that reason possession, not as abstraction but as actuality, has as a necessary correlative an active participation on the part of the possessor. These various forms of subjective movement and men- tal participation which are in their totality called posses- sion are dependent on, and in a way determined by, the qualities of the object possessed. Acquisition and fructi- fication of non-monetary objects require specific qualities

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