(1) A: What are we constantly creating in the development of laws and constitutions, works of art, religion, science, and technology?

B: What eventually becomes of these creations?

**(2)** A: How does Simmel surmise the “history” of culture?

**B**: Why will one “form” never suffice?

(3) How does life take on an external existence?

(4) A: How was the evolution of organized labor forms a pristine example of “the process of cultural history?”

B: Which factors of life push the replacement of age-old forms?

**C**: Life now struggles against, or tries to free itself from what?

D: After each upheaval what arose?

(5) A: What can be found in all intellectual movements and in their ultimate goal?

**B**: What logical paradox evolves from the philosophy of life?

(6) A: What was considered the “Central Idea” during the era of Greek Classicism?

B: Which “idea” was proclaimed for the first time in the 19th Century?

(7) A: How is Schopenhauer able to describe the concept of life, without using the actual term?

B: What does Nietzsche claim as the “essence of life?”

(8) A: How do new forms emerge in this day in age?

B: Why does Simmel claim it impossible to find any one unifying ideal today? 

**(9)** A: Why does Simmel praise the Expressionism movement over all others of that era?

B: What is being rejected in an Expressionist work of art?