Analysis Of Hegel Master Slave Dialectic

Hegel who is a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism believes that consciousness of objects mention some awareness of self, as a subject, which is isolated from the recognized object. But Hegel argue that subjects are also objects when we look at the other subjects. In ‘the Phenomology of Spirit’, he tries to point out that self-consciousness is the awareness of another individual’s understanding of oneself. One of the most important pieces he wrote is called the dialectic of the master and slave. In today’s world, there are many social conflict that can be analyzed by the help of the perspective of Hegel’s master slave dialectic. As a contemporary conflict, I chose racism to analyze it from the perspective of recognition as discussed in Hegel’s master slave dialectic and also Fannon’s view on Slavery.

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He explains that the awareness of self-consciousness is a strength for perception between two individuals to one another which creates inequality or injustice in a relationship of dependence. He defines self-consciousness as a form of life in the master slave dialectic in order to demonstrate that the development of life becomes it-self. In Hegel's Master and Slave "Lordship and Bondage", he explains, ‘In this experience self-consciousness becomes aware that life is as essential to it as pure self-consciousness. In immediate self-consciousness the simple ego is absolute object, which, however, is for us or in itself absolute mediation, and has as its essential moment substantial and solid