Ideas y Valores (Apr 2007)

The Struggle for Recognition in Hegel as a Prefiguration af Absolute

  • Carlos Emel Rendón

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 56, no. 133
pp. 95 – 112

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The aim of this paper is to examine, in those texts written by Hegel prior to the Phenomenology of Spirit, the way in which the struggle for recognition relates to the configuration of absolute ethical life, that is, the state in which the individual is recognized by another individual as well as by the community to which he/she belongs. With this in mind, some of the differences and continuities among the texts will be analyzed, in order to clarify and provide a better understanding of the concept of ethics underlying them.

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