SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Simone De Beauvoir, German Idealism, Dialectic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

German idealist philosopher tend to dwell in the realism. Master and slave dialectic (lordship and bondsman) Self and other are unequal (self hood, self consciousness) the other is not me/difference". Object or other has it"s essence defined by others. Hegel - the struggle for recognition in self consciousness two opposing moments/movements" in the dialectic of self-consciousness. 1. the moment when the self and the other come together, which makes self consciousness/recognition possible. Dubois/fanon and race, marx and class, simone de beauvoir and gender the realization of self-consciousness = a struggle for recognition between two individuals bound to one another as unequals in a relationship of dependence. One person is the lord and one is the bondsman"s (master/slave) What is the nature of the thing, according to the master? the answer is simple: it is something merely negative the relation between master and slave has an ironic effect.