Humanity’s viewpoint and society’s viewpoint remain in principle distinct

Evidence

It may be that what affects the entire history of humanity for better or for worse usually has the same significance for the narrower, socially bound circle; what is socially essential may without further consideration even be something essential for the development or for the system of humanity. Be all that as it may, it does not affect the fact that the ordering and evaluation of any given content of life according to the viewpoint of the whole of humanity is in principle different from that which proceeds from the viewpoint of society, and that both viewpoints are independent of one another in their underlying motives, however much they may consider one and the same fact, or human being, or cultural content in terms of their respective hierarchies. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 215

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Humanity functions as an organizing idea, not a concrete entity — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 215; Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213; The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210 (+3 more)

Related

• Humanity functions as an organizing idea, not a concrete entity (similarity 0.86)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.85)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.84)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins (similarity 0.84)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.83)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.80)
• Enlightenment-based sociology fragments because theories depend on observers’ beliefs about human nature (similarity 0.79)
• Hountondji’s critique fails by ignoring how social structures shape individual thought. (similarity 0.79)
• Biology and abstract reason never united humans; concrete thought did (similarity 0.79)
• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once (similarity 0.79)
• One reality supports many independent scientific viewpoints of it (similarity 0.79)
• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it (similarity 0.78)
• Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent (similarity 0.78)
• Rising individuality necessarily yields belief in mankind’s ideal unity (similarity 0.78)
• Numbers name the intermediate agent between individual and society that neither alone can enact (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #corroborates (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210