ABSTRACT
The feeling of human community, the habit of living together and working together with humans as humans, this is—at least under everyday urban conditions—on the point of dissolving and being replaced by functional, operational solidarities. To the degree that humanity has become practically and technically one, it has in an unprecedented proportion grown humanly disjoined. To be sure, a perfected human community, be it that of a people or of mankind, has never yet materialized. No actual accomplished social democracy, no united humanity has ever been achieved. There existed values, human values which, in an affirmative or prohibitive manner, determined human behavior and which were strongly effective in everyday life. A value, however, should not be considered as a separate, isolated entity. Every single value forms part of some coherent system of valuation. It belongs within a consistent view of life, an organic concept and style of life of a human community.
