Adornment simultaneously expresses egoism and altruism within social exchange

Evidence

I designate as the content—the materials, so to speak—of sociation everything that is present in individuals (the immediately concrete loci of all historical reality)—drive, interest, purpose, inclination, psychic state, movement—everything that is present in them in such a way as to engender or mediate effects upon others or to receive such effects. In themselves, these materials which fill life, these motivations which propel it, are not social. Strictly speaking, neither hunger nor love, work nor religiosity, technology nor the functions and results of intelligence, are social. They are factors in sociation only when they transform the mere aggregation of isolated individuals into specific forms of being with and for one another, forms that are subsumed under the general concept of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194 (#expands, via linked claim)

By self-interest Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2471 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194; Solitary instincts conflict with the gregarious self-interest required for society — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2471; Jewelry simultaneously increases social distance and offers favor to observers (+1 more)

Related

• Jewelry simultaneously increases social distance and offers favor to observers (similarity 0.83)
• Adornment simultaneously singles out its wearer and requires others’ gaze to have value (similarity 0.80)
• Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives (similarity 0.79)
• Solitary instincts conflict with the gregarious self-interest required for society (similarity 0.78)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Solitary instincts conflict with the gregarious self-interest required for society #complicates (0.72) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2471