Encounter and Struggle:
Consciousness’ Experience of
Recognition
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Month: March 2017
Why Self-Consciousness Needs Two
Hegel’s claim that self-consciousness requires two (self-)consciousnesses is something I don’t think anyone should find convincing at the face of it, for I myself do not find it convincing without elaboration. Part of the issue that I think highly confuses the understanding of the section is that … Continue reading Why Self-Consciousness Needs Two
PhoS: The Master and Slave [Prt. 1]
Following from the development of life and self-consciousness, we now are at Hegel’s most well known and famous philosophical passage, the Master/Slave dialectic of self-consciousness. Like prior sections, this is going to be a long one. There is much here that deals with some very dense … Continue reading PhoS: The Master and Slave [Prt. 1]
