Realizing one’s unique image is a moral duty

Evidence

Not only as something already existing is man incomparable, placed into a framework which can be filled out only by him. There also is another aspect: the realization of this incompara- bility, the filling-out of this framework, is man’s moral task. Each individual is called or destined to realize his own, incomparable image. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2895

Categorization

• XREF: The moral obligation to actualize a given self parallels the obligation-sense in social-capital theory and in Raskolnikov’s failed self-image. — connects to: Responsibility to a gifted material calls for beautiful, worthy creative work — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 530; The moral duty to be unique is really a top-of-hierarchy status duty — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 173