Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint
Evidence
To have such a remarkable attitude toward life, one must sense above its totality a higher unity, a super-life, as it were, whose relation to life parallels the relation of the immediate life totality itself to those particular experiences which we call adventures. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 473
Categorization
- XREF: This ‘super-life’ recursion—the whole seen from a higher unity as fragmentary—echoes the observer-recursion theme the reader is tracking: the blasé observer who stands outside urban life as fragment. — connects to: Adventures are remembered as dreamlike and as happening to someone else — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 465; The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 467; Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466 (+7 more)
Related
- Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries (similarity 0.86)
- Adventure as a form of experience belongs essentially to youth, not old age (similarity 0.85)
- The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form (similarity 0.83)
- Adventures are remembered as dreamlike and as happening to someone else (similarity 0.82)
- Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Adventure as a form of experience belongs essentially to youth, not old age
#qualifies(0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 484 - Perspective can come at the cost of one’s life and vision.
#qualifies(0.50) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 437 - Journey stories offer a map for understanding our own lives as meaningful journeys
#expands(0.50) — , A Year of World Stories, 15291 - Experience is defined by habit formation, requiring life.
#corroborates(0.40) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2899 - Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension
#complicates(0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837