Society serves as a third term resolving individual-objectivity conflicts

Evidence

Society often is the third element, which solves conflicts between the individual and objectivity or builds bridges where they are disconnected. As regards the genesis of cognition, the concept of society has liberated us from an alternative characteristic of earlier times, namely, that a cultural value either must spring from an individual or must be bestowed upon mankind by an objective power as has been shown by some examples in Chapter i. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6472

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s Simmel-triad framing of Raskolnikov: society/third-party witnesses resolve the dyadic tension between individual and moral law.
• DEFINE: Articulates society’s intermediate position as a third potency between individual and objective order.