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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AT SOCIAL CONSERVATION 169 sistence of the group, but at the protection and the con- tinuity of its purposes.! 1Se al 1y ch wat his le- its | , ”» h, he er ite ior ms ‘nt 4- -h- in ut In or- mng- uld not ~di- the 1 in lem Law, Honor, and Morality Another factor which is important for the preservation of the group is of a purely subjective character. It mani- fests itself in a feeling of patriotism for the state or city and of devotion to the family or to the religious commu- nity. Different from this factor, which remains entirely subjective, are the elements of morality, honor, and law. The moral action may derive its force from the freedom and autonomy of the individual. The individual himself may give it a specific content. That content has for him, none the less, an objective aspect. It faces him as a norm to which his actions should more or less conform. The law, in a similar fashion, apart from its special organs, faces the individual as an ideal objectivity which binds him mor- ally, but which has none the less a superindividual aspect. Between these two kinds of norm which contribute to the social self-preservation lies a third form, honor. Law aims at objective ends by objective means, morality at sub- jective ends by subjective means, while honor aims at ob- jective ends by subjective means. In the series, morality, honor, and law, each preceding sphere includes the succeeding sphere, but not the reverse. The moral imperative commands what honor and law de- mand. The standard of honorable conduct commands what the law demands. The sphere of law is the least extensive sphere. Legal regulations apply to the minimum neces- sary for social self-preservation, and for that reason con- formity is secured by physical restraint. Conformity to the moral standard has no stronger sanction than that of OUS L Soz., pp. 526-31.

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