To have such a remarkable attitude toward life, one must sense above its totality a higher unity, a super-life, as it were, whose relation to life parallels the relation of the immediate life totality itself to those particular experiences which we call adventures.

DEFINE: Clarifies a layered conception of transcendence: super-life as the higher order against which life-experiences are judged, analogous to how the life totality frames individual adventures.

DEFINE: Simmel introduces the concept of a 'super-life' — a higher unity that allows one to have a remarkable attitude toward life, paralleling how life totality relates to individual adventures.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 473