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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if |e Po t al n CHAPTER I MONEY AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY The Hustorical Aspect of Liberty UTY, claim, right, and obligation are in the last D analysis only names for a one-sided aspect of dual relationships. Every duty has as its correlative the right of another subject. This right or claim may have for its content the personal services, the immediate result of these personal services, or merely a specific object. This series is also a scale for the amount of liberty that is left to the person thus bound. The extreme form of the first in- stance is slavery. In that case there is no objective speci- fication of the service demanded, but the individual is bound with the whole of his personality and all his energies. The transition to the second phase begins with the speci- fication of the labor time or of the character of the work. The third phase is reached if, instead of a quantum labor time or labor force, a specific product is demanded. In that case the claimant is interested only in a specific objec- tive obligation. How that obligation is met becomes a mat- ter of indifference to him, and the personality of the serv- ant can withdraw from the service. But as long as the natural economy lasts, a complete liberation cannot be obtained. The intimate relationship between product and producer prevents a complete with- drawal of the personality from the service demanded, al- though the substitution of a factual service for a personal service means increased liberty. Full liberation becomes possible only after the money economy has succeeded the

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