ABSTRACT
This conclusion of third part of this book presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the book. The part gives a brief synopsis of Georg Simmel's social metaphysics as given in his Philosophy of Money. They illustrate the function of a social metaphysics as contrasted with the function of an empirical social science and with the philosophic inquiry into the presuppositions of the social sciences. Absolute and abstract philosophic systems are too far removed and remain too far distant from the single appearances of practical life to be capable of lifting them out of their isolation and relating them to all other appearances of life. The unity of the single inquiries lies, therefore, not in the relation between their propositions or in their contribution to a special field of knowledge, but in the unitary thought movement which aimed through these inquiries to find in a single appearance of life the meaning of the whole.
