SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dialectic, German Idealism

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

Document Summary

We are looking at hagel through the same lens many sociologists have (pov of consciousness, social identity). Hagel was a german idealist philosopher and the piece of his well be looking at is well known (lordship and bondsman). To realize true self-consciousness we need to realize ourselves as subjects and separate from the oneself perceived object. From a political/philosophical pov, there is a mutual recognition of each others subjectivity. When objects are removed the end points is the recognition of each others subjectivity. Hagel sees recognition as a big concept. I the case of unequal social relations there is misrecognition going on. Hagel sees the struggle for recognition" in self-consciousness. Two moments in the struggle for self-consciousness and recognition. In that moment the possibility of self-consciousness becomes possible. You meet another consciousness and you realize you are not the only consciousness in existent/out there. This is the first step/necessary moment for true self-consciousness in the first place.