The The pure concept of recognition and its appearance for self-consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit
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recognition, pure concept, appearing, moments, self-consciousnessCopyright (c) 2022 Milton Abellón
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the two general moments of the Hegelian exposition of recognition (Anerkennung) that are developed at the end of the introductory part and in section A of chapter IV of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), (i) the pure concept of recognition and (ii) the appearance of this concept for self-consciousness, in order to clarify the specific meaning of the notion of recognition in the problematic context of the chapter IV. Our first thesis is that the first moment (i) establishes the constitutive moments of the movement of recognizing and, with it, of the intersubjective mediation of self-consciousness, only from the practical and reciprocal reference (Beziehung) between the two (self-)consciousnesses in which self-consciousness is duplicated. Our second thesis is that the second moment (ii), in particular the mastery and servitude, shows that recognition entail a triple reference of the self-consciousness that persists as consciousness [sc. (self-)consciousness], because develops the double practical reference between the two (self-)consciousnesses and the practical and intersubjective reference of the duplicated self-consciousness with the living thing or the «natural thing» that was the object of appetite. Our third thesis is that, although reciprocal recognition is not realized in section A, its exposition shows that it is the result of the movement of the practical and intersubjective reference of (self-)consciousnesses, constituting the moment in which self-consciousness would sublates its contraposition as consciousness and would achieves the mediated unity with itself in the mediated unity with the other-being.
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