Deutsche Geschichte: Urzeit und Mittelalter

The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237066

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Urzeit und Mittelalter

Volume count:: Abt. 1

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: XVI, 420 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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MONEY AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY 223 ‘{) | - 1€ mn ad If nt 1S. 1d ie 3S. in es 8. fe of he nt Ale d- AP oq N= »f it he en at 1al y- If - al. The mental life of primitive men and of children does not distinguish between the objective or the logical truth and the subjective, psychological structure. For the child and the savage, the psychological content of the moment, be it imagination or fantasy, is immediate reality. The differentiation in contrasts and opposites is the result only of a slow process of development. This development which creates the individuality on the one hand and the objec- tivity on the other hand is the genesis of freedom and lib- erty. The concept of individuality develops as the opposite and correlative of the concept of factualness and parallel with the latter. A great development in the latter also leads inevitably to a great development in the former. This is illustrated in the history of thought in the last three centuries. On the one hand there has been a growing feel- ing of the factual order of things, of the objective necessity of occurrences, and an extension of the concept of natural law. On the other hand there has been a growing emphasis on the self-sufficiency of the individuality, on its liberty and independence over and against all those external natu- ral forces. Whatever difficulty metaphysics may have in reconciling the objective determination of things with the subjective freedom of individuals, as cultural contents the development of these two conceptions is the result of one single process. The same occurs within the economic world. Here also there is originally no differentiation between the personal and the factual aspect of a service. Gradually there occurs a differentiation between the production and the product, and finally the personal element withdraws. This process also means the beginning of individual liberty. And here, too, individual liberty increases with the increasing objec- tivation and depersonalization of the economic world. On-

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