It is no more than a corollary of the idea of such a relation between individuality and sociality if we state the following: as man as individual, and so his attributes as man qua man, come to replace man as social element in the foreground of interest, the bond must tighten that pulls him—over the head of his social group, as it were—toward all that is human, suggesting to him the notion of an ideal unity of mankind.

DEFINE: Explains the conceptual relationship between individuality, sociality, and the ideal of human unity — a framework distinction worth holding onto.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 684