{"id":6425,"date":"2011-02-09T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:27:45","slug":"kojeve-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/02\/09\/kojeve-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Koj\u00e8ve desire for recognition the master"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who desires a thing humanly acts not so much to possess the thing<\/em> as to make another recognize<\/em> his right … <\/em>to that thing. 40<\/p>\n

And Hegel says that the being that is incapable of putting its life in danger in order to attain ends that are not immediately vital \u2014i.e. the being that cannot risk its life in a Fight for Recognition<\/em>, <\/strong>in a fight for pure prestige<\/em> \u2014is not<\/em> a truly human<\/em> being. 41<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Therefore, human, historical, self-conscious existence is possible only where there are, or \u2014at least\u2014 where there have been, bloody fights, wars for prestige.\u00a0 And thus it was sounds of one of these Fights that Hegel heard while finishing his Phenomenology<\/em>, in which he became conscious of himself by answering his question “What am I?”\u00a0 41<\/p>\n

The Master is the man who went all the way in a Fight for prestige, who risked his life<\/em> in order to be recognized<\/em> in his absolute superiority by another<\/em> man. That is, to his real<\/em>, natural biological life he preferred something ideal<\/em>, spiritual, non<\/em>biological: …45<\/p>\n

It was to become Master<\/em>, to be Master<\/em> that he risked his life, and not to live a life of pleasure.\u00a0 Now, what he wanted by engaging in the fight was to be recognized by another<\/em> \u2014 that is, by someone other<\/em> than himself but who is like him<\/em>, by another man<\/em>.\u00a0 But in fact, at the end of the Fight, he is recognized only by a Slave<\/em>.\u00a0 To be a man<\/em>, he wanted to be recognized by another man.\u00a0 BUt if to be a man is to be Master<\/em>, the Slave is not a man, and to be recognized by a Slave is not to be recognized by a man. <\/em>He would have to be recognized by another Master.\u00a0 But his is impossible, since\u00a0 \u2014by definition\u2014 the Master prefers death to slavish recognition of another’s superiority.\u00a0 In short, the Master never succeeds in realizing his end, the end for which he risks his very life.\u00a0 the Master can be satisfied only in and by death, his<\/em> death or the death of his adversary.\u00a0 … Now, is it worthwhile to risk one’s life in order to know that one is recognized by a Slave?<\/em> Obviously not.\u00a0 And that is why, to the extent that the Master is not made brutish by his pleasure and enjoyment, when he takes account of what his true<\/em> end and the motive of his actions<\/em> \u2014i.e., his warlike actions\u2014 are, he will not, <\/em>he will never<\/em> be befriedigt<\/em>, satisfied by what is, <\/em>by what he<\/em> is.<\/p>\n

In other words, Master is an existential impasse. 46<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man who desires a thing humanly acts not so much to possess the thing as to make another recognize his right … to that thing. 40 And Hegel says that the being that is incapable of putting its life in danger in order to attain ends that are not immediately vital \u2014i.e. the being … Continue reading “Koj\u00e8ve desire for recognition the master”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-hegel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}