Hegel
- Romanticist
- Self-consciousness: the recognition and confirmation of self-understanding that we receive from others
- Consciousness: awareness of environment and surroundings
- Desire: self-consciousness takes the form of desire through the negation of surrounding objects; find desire through negation
- Absolute knowing: self-knowing spirit
- Everything is here and now, because the present is the manifestation of the past and history. Without the past, the present would not exist; it is a paradox
- Perception ceases and becomes understanding; at first, we look around us and observe what surrounds us, but when we notice the inner unity of the objects we sense, then it transforms into inner understanding
- Unity of the one with itself; we seek to enjoy objects, because ultimately, we want to enjoy ourselves
- Self-consciousness achieves its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness; reciprocity between self-consciousnesses; they affirm each other; we can't expect others to affirm our self-understanding without doing the same for them
- Mutual recognition will never be sustainable
- Intersubjectivity: shared between conscious minds; like Twitter
- Mutual recognition is the ideal situation, but something like that will never by perfectly lived out
- I can't fully understand who I am if I remain alone
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