"The individual who is subordinate to an objective law feels himself determined by it, while he, in turn, in no way determines the law, and has no possibility of reacting to it in a manner which could influence it—quite in contrast to even the most miserable slave, who, in some fashion at last, can still in this sense react to his master."
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“Domination” (1908), in On Individuality and Social Forms (1971), pp. 113-114
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Georg Simmel
1858 – 1918
deutscher Philosoph und Soziologe
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