True sacrifice on Hegel’s presentation of self-consciousness
The paper provides a modest reading of Hegel’s treatment of self-consciousness in his Phenomenology of Spirit and tries to present it as an integral part of the overall project of the experience of consciousness leading from understanding to reason. Its immediate objective is, it is argu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2015/0353-57381504830K.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper provides a modest reading of Hegel’s treatment of
self-consciousness in his Phenomenology of Spirit and tries to present it as
an integral part of the overall project of the experience of consciousness
leading from understanding to reason. Its immediate objective is, it is
argued, to think the independence and dependence, that is the pure and
empirical I within the same unity of self-consciousness. This implies a
double movement of finding a proper existence for the pure I and at the same
time a breaking down of the empirical I’s attachment to particularity. It is
argued that the Hegelian struggle for recognition intends to show how the
access to reason demands the subject’s renunciation of its attachment to
particularity, that is to sacrifice not only its bare life but every thing
indeed, including its particular identity, and yet, to go on living. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |