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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ir1- ut ce, ng ag- 10t "he 5 a its are a al- at 2r- ns. all PIS - cal fe ed Je- the by >ds nd of om 1a8 Ys a- ‘h. GENERAL INTRODUCTION It is the same with religion. From contents which are also perceived and conceived on the planes of science and metaphysics, the religious function creates a new world by means of special emotional attitudes and special syntheses. It transforms these contents through special evaluations and constructs a new world-picture with di- mensions and perspective different from the empirical, the philosophic, or the artistic form. That world is a law unto itself; it has an immanent logic and a value and sig- nificance entirely independent of its correspondence to ob- jective actuality. And science, philosophy, art, and religion are not the only fundamental categories, not the only independent forms in which the human mind shapes the contents of reality. The world of values and the world of norms (Sollen) are also specific pictures of the universe which result from special ways of dealing with its contents. They are funda- mental in the sense that they cannot be derived from each other or from simpler elements.? In this distinction between the different fields of men- tal activity and, within these fields, between the form and the content, Simmel’s relativism reaches its widest scope. But the functional, dynamic character of his relativism enables him to reach, through and beyond these forms, a final unity in life itself. With the same relativistic dia- lectic with which he has first dissected the universe, he now co-ordinates those discrete worlds into a final synthe- sis which, although it can be formulated only in terms of two opposing relativities, is yet more than either because it embraces and transcends both. 1 Religion, pp. 8-18. 2 Phil. des Geldes, pp. 1-7; Einleitung in die Moralwissenschaft, pp. 1-12, 30- 32: Hoptprobl. der Phil., p. 16.

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