Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once

Evidence

To express this with that radicalism of conception which in practice is naturally approached only fragmentarily, all human psychic events and ideal constructions are to be understood as contents and norms of individual life, and just as thoroughly as contents and norms of existence in social interaction, as for Spinoza the cosmic-absolute existence is to be conceived now under the attribute of extension, now (and just as completely) under that of thought—una eademque res, sed duobus modis expressa [“one and the same thing, but expressed in two modes.”] — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213

Categorization

• XREF: The Spinoza parallel grounds the reader’s essay synthesis: blasé attitude and civil inattention are two attributes of the same urban experience. — connects to: The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354; Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 608; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (+18 more)

Related

• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.84)
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type (similarity 0.83)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.83)
• The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons (similarity 0.81)
• Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent (similarity 0.80)
• Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors (similarity 0.80)
• Simmel reads human experience as creative, fragmented, conflictual, and individualistic (similarity 0.79)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.79)
• Humanity’s viewpoint and society’s viewpoint remain in principle distinct (similarity 0.79)
• Social generalization, though distorting, is what makes social relations possible (similarity 0.79)
• Social types can embody an all-dominating orientation to the world (similarity 0.79)
• Every person fuses social inheritance with free individual autonomy (similarity 0.78)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience #contradicts (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210
• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #expands (0.55) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #complicates (0.50)