Simmel explains money as the symbolic object that embodies mind, centralizes relationships, and creates reality by making abstract relations concrete.
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"...in a zombie civilization. All right, okay. So this is Georg Simmel, who is a friend of Max Weber's, the contemporaries, the colleagues, the..."
"Okay, when we do this, we turn God into money, our understanding of reality becomes much more vibrant. We're able to understand reality much..."
"So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing,..."
"...of this time, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, and this man, Georg Simmel. And Georg Simmel wrote a wonderful essay called The Metropolis and Mental..."
"...refer to three major thinkers. Max Weber, Imel Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. They're all sociologists. They're considered three major founders of the social sciences,..."
"...by God to bless humanity, okay? And what Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Imel Durkheim are trying to do is figure out what's really..."
"...They're Max Weber, who is considered the founder of sociology, Georg Simmel, and Emile Durkheim. These are the three major sociologists that really created..."
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