Simmel

Simmel on Competition

TO DO: Incorporate in statspill See book here. Competition is a subset of conflict. “The foremost sociological characteristic of competition is the fact that conflict in it is indirect.” “parallel efforts by both parties concerning the same prize” S distinguishes between the subjective goal and objective result of competition. The prize competitors seek is in the hands of neither. S focuses on competition where the only adversary in is the aim.

Simmel on Individuality

See book here. How Is Society Possible? Kant on Nature: Nature is the representation of nature: the way the mind organizes sense perceptions. The different sense perceptions cannot separately compose nature. They must be combined in the mind. Comparing nature and society “In the Kantian view (which we follow here), the unity of nature emerges in the observing subject exclusively; it is produced exclusively by him in the sense materials, and on the basis of sense materials, which are in themselves heterogeneous.