🙂 logic and phenomenology, structure of thought = structure of being, structure of thought = structure of reality, structure of capital. And the role of the phenomenology in this thesis is ….
The quandary conditioning the struggle of life and death is that of having to choose between ecstatic and self-determining existence (49).
Self-consciousness’ predicament, that of having to choose between ecstatic and self-determining existence, is seen to be the predicament of the Other as well. This similarity between the two self-consciousnesses ultimately proves to be the basis of their harmonious interdependence … Recognition, once achieved, affirms the ambiguity of self-consciousness as both ecstatic and self-determining.
self-estrangement implicit in the experience of desire … As an intentional movement desire tends to eclipse the self that is its origin.
Desire must arrange for its satisfaction within the context of life, for death is the end of desire … Desire is coextensive with life, with the realm of otherness, and with Others.
Domination and and enslavement are thus defenses against life WITHIN the context of life; they emerge in the nostalgia over the failed effort to die. 54
The lord and bondsman turn against life in different ways, but both resist the synthesis of corporeality and freedom, a synthesis that alone is constitutive of human life; the lord lives in dread of his body, while the bondsman lives in dread of freedom.