ABSTRACT
The principles of conflict and of unification, which holds the contrasts together in one whole, are shown in this example with the purity of almost an abstract concept. Simmel indicates how the ambivalence and closeness can produce first conflict and then an intensification of the prior positive bonds that revolution separates. Legal conflict is pure conflict in as much as nothing enters its whole action which does not belong to the conflict as such and serves its purpose. Cultivation thus gives relations between harmonious persons the advantage that they become aware, precisely on the occasion of conflict, of its trifling nature in comparison with the magnitude of the forces that unify them. The tension between intragroup antagonism and group continuation must, on the contrary, lead to continued conflict.
