recognition

The struggle for recognition arises, then, not from a primary competitive attitude toward the other, but from the experience of desire for and by another.  Specific desires for property, goods or positions of social dominance must be, according to Hegel’s framework, seen as derivative expressions of the desire for a community based on love.  Desire is, thus, not originally an effort of acquisition or domination, but emerges in such forms only when a community based on the principles of reciprocal recognition has not yet been developed.  note 18 page 242

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