Relational qualities can harden into intrinsic traits of an element
Evidence
A basic dualism … pervades the fundamental form of all sociation. The dualism consists in the fact that a relation, which is a fluctuating, constantly developing life-process, nevertheless receives a relatively stable external form. The sociological forms of reciprocal behavior, of unification, of presentation toward the outside, cannot follow, with any precise adaptation, the changes of their inside, that is, of the processes that occur in the individual in regard to the other. These two layers, relation and form, have different tempi of development; or it often is the nature of the external form not to develop properly at all. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778; Knowledge created from a position of strength produces the object it claims to describe; Absolute particulars gain rigidity precisely by being relational moments — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1061
Related
- Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life (similarity 0.88)
- Functional differentiation makes social structures contingent and permanently revisable (similarity 0.84)
- The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons (similarity 0.81)
- Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.81)
- Relational traits like rulership can detach from their needed counterpart and persist alone (similarity 0.81)
- Social relationships are shaped by a twofold dualism (similarity 0.80)
- Social relations can be analyzed purely as formal configurations (similarity 0.79)
- Intrapsychic processes mirror the structure of interpersonal relations (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life
#exemplifies(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778