Every person fuses social inheritance with free individual autonomy

Evidence

The specification of that base in terms of the broadest categories of life can now be completed somewhat as follows. Every human being emerges as a certain combination of predetermination and accident; of received material for, and unique formation of, his life; of social inheritance and the individual administration of it. In each person, we see the stereotypings of his race, his stratum, his traditions, his family, in brief, of everything that makes him a bearer of preexisting contents and norms; we see these combined with the incalculable and the personal, with free autonomy. The earlier factors are the a priori, as it were, and the latter are the singular givenness, which combine to produce the empirical phenomenon. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Simmel’s a priori/accident pairing maps onto his blasé attitude discussion and the individual-against-metropolis tension central to the reading essay. — connects to: Nobility uniquely synthesized collective standardization with individual freedom — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 521; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174; Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4252 (+6 more)

Related

• Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors (similarity 0.85)
• Nobility uniquely synthesized collective standardization with individual freedom (similarity 0.83)
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type (similarity 0.82)
• Rising individuality necessarily yields belief in mankind’s ideal unity (similarity 0.82)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.80)
• Social types can embody an all-dominating orientation to the world (similarity 0.80)
• Individualism treats humans as autonomous accumulators detached from community. (similarity 0.80)
• The eighteenth century equated individuality with freedom and assumed natural human equality (similarity 0.80)
• Each person is a fragment even of their own singular type (similarity 0.79)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.79)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.79)
• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once (similarity 0.78)
• Individual diversity can be conceived as a division of labor among unique beings (similarity 0.78)
• Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Nobility uniquely synthesized collective standardization with individual freedom #corroborates (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 521
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174
• Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 608
• Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation #contradicts (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 4252
• Ruling-personality cohesion and individual freedom both stem from group-shackle breaking #qualifies (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 670
• Rising individuality necessarily yields belief in mankind’s ideal unity #expands (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 684
• The state precedes the individual because humans achieve their full purpose only within society #complicates (0.45) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 802