Sublime

In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to who he is,—that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

Weil aber in der die letzten Jahrzehnte herrschenden Naturlehre nichts, aber auch gar nichts auf diesen Eigenwert hindeutete, verlassen wir mit einem solchen Argument den Boden, auf dem eine politische Debatte noch möglich ist, und müssen uns als Träumer und Spinner beschimpfen lassen.

Here she drew on her wartime reading of Hegel, who had analysed how rival consciousnesses wrestle for dominance, with one playing ‘master’ and the other ‘slave’. The master perceives everything from his own viewpoint, as is natural. But, bizarrely, so does the slave, who ties herself in knots trying to visualise the world from the master’s point of

Most people are unaware of the ‘systemness’ of their daily practices and how they ‘bear’ systems as they go about their weekly shop or commute or daily shower or participation in a cultural event. People can be said to ‘bear’ such system relations; – this notion generalizing Marx's thesis that people are Träger (bearers) of class relations and not

According to Hegel, human history was driven by a struggle for recognition. He argued that the only rational solution to the desire for recognition was universal recognition, in which the dignity of every human being was recognized.