No mental form shapes all material uniformly regardless of its structure
Evidence
The sovereignty of art over reality by no means implies, as naturalism and many theories of idealism so steadfastly maintain, the ability to draw all the contents of existence uniformly into its sphere. None of the forms by which the human mind masters the material of existence and adapts it to its purpose is so general and neutral that all objects, indifferent as they are to their own structure, should uniformly conform to it. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 744
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018; Form conters uniqueness on matter while pure continuity admits no closed structures. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 819; Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 866
Related
- Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life (similarity 0.88)
- Form conters uniqueness on matter while pure continuity admits no closed structures. (similarity 0.88)
- Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it (similarity 0.85)
- Form-versus-life conflict anticipates modern structure-versus-antistructure debates (similarity 0.82)
- Attempts to purify language of metaphor are doomed and futile (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them (similarity 0.79)
- Life both requires and overflows every determinate form (similarity 0.79)
- Forms differ from Kantian categories by informing all experience and changing over time (similarity 0.79)
- Premature systematization produces only illusory coherence in a doctrine (similarity 0.79)
- Idealist aesthetics identify form and content, not technique and plot (similarity 0.79)
- Form and content readings are exchangeable refocusings of the same phenomenon (similarity 0.79)
- Structuralism studies only closed formal systems, not open surface variety. (similarity 0.79)
- The form-content distinction is a methodological device, not a real separation (similarity 0.78)
- Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it
#contradicts(0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 866 - Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life
#complicates(0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018 - Form conters uniqueness on matter while pure continuity admits no closed structures.
#expands(0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 819