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James, David Neil (2016) Fichte and Hegel on recognition and slavery. In: James, David Neil and Zöller , Günter , (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Fichte. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy . Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 350-373. ISBN 9780521478052
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Abstract
In the first section of this essay I show how Hegel’s account of the struggle for recognition can be explained in terms of the role that Fichte accords to recognition in his deduction of the concept of right and, in particular, in terms of a problem to which this deduction gives rise. In the second section, I show how Hegel seeks to resolve this problem by means of his account of the struggle for recognition. Finally, in the third section, I show how Fichte’s and Hegel’s claims concerning the necessity of mutual recognition do not prevent them from regarding slavery as justified in certain circumstances, or at least as being as much the fault of the person enslaved as the person who has enslaved him or her, despite the fact that slavery represents one of the clearest possible examples of a situation in which mutual recognition is absent. One may therefore question the extent to which they regard mutual recognition as an absolutely fundamental norm of social relations. There is the difference, however, that Hegel’s position appears to be that mutual recognition becomes such a norm in the course of history, whereas Fichte implies that the absence of mutual recognition may be justified simply whenever an individual has failed to raise him-or herself to the level of a being whose attitude towards him-or herself as demonstrated through his or her actions is proof of a status that demands recognition from others.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814, Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770 1831, Slavery | ||||||||
Series Name: | Cambridge Companions to Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Cambridge ; New York | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9780521478052 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Cambridge Companion to Fichte | ||||||||
Editor: | James, David Neil and Zöller , Günter | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2016 | ||||||||
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Number of Pages: | 438 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 350-373 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/9781139027557.015 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This material has been published in Cambridge Companion to Fichte edited by James and Zoller. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © The author and Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 February 2019 | ||||||||
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