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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56 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL and sociology on the one hand and social philosophy on the other.! Science results from a definite mental attitude toward the world, from specific needs and demands. What these needs and demands are for each particular science is a sub- ject of special investigation. Again, scientific knowledge, because it is based on immediate relations between the subject and the external world, must of necessity be limited in scope. For that reason every exact science which aims at immediate comprehension of experience becomes flanked by two fields of inquiry of a philosophic nature. In those fields the thought form changes from the exact scientific to the philosophical. Each science is thus embraced by two philosophic regions, an epistemology and a metaphysics. The one is interested in the science as function, as mental process; the other is interested in its content. The first is interested in the elementary concepts and the basic as- sumptions and presuppositions of the particular investiga- tion. It deals with problems which cannot be settled with- in the science, since they refer to the foundation on which the actual investigation rests. In the second region the particular investigation is brought to completion and re- lated to questions and concepts which have no place within the field of immediate experience and scientific knowledge. The science of sociology and the other social sciences are therefore flanked in a similar manner by two regions of philosophic thought. The first investigates the presup- positions of these inquiries, and the second carries them to completion.? The epistemology of sociology or of any other social sotence is the inauirv into the basic presuppositions of the 1 For the difference between science and philosophy, see General Introdue- Hon. 2 Soz., Dp. 25-26; Phil. des Geldes, p. v.

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