A person’s true range is the sum of effects emanating from them

Evidence

Man does not end with the limits of his body or the area comprising his immediate activity. Rather is the range of the person constituted by the sum of effects emanating from him temporally and spatially. In the same way, a city consists of its total effects which extend beyond its immediate confines. Only this range is the city’s actual extent in which its existence is expressed. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9893

Categorization

• DEFINE: This gives Simmel’s definition of the self as constituted by its spatial and temporal effects — the specific notion that a person’s range is not bodily but relational.