Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

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Index Note: Page numbers in bold type indicate main chapter subject. achievement: of freedom, 75, 86–87, 94; instability of, 86; McDowell’s understanding of, 18n16; of mutuality of recognition, 64; practical, 19; responsibility and, 34n31, 76–77, 85; self-consciousness as, 15–19, 24, 28, 49–50, 57–58; of unity, 82, 95–96, 97 acknowledgment, social, 63, 76–78, 85–86, 89–90, 91n1, 95 actuality/actualization: of commitments , 19; concept of right and, 35n31; of Geist, 2; relevance of sociohistorical , 4; of self-relatedness, 32 agency, 1, 4; accountability and, 16n14; acknowledgment of, 30, 91n1; aspects of, 52; Hegel’s thesis of, 19–20 allegory (or analogy), 12, 13–14, 14–15n12, 44, 48n43, 51 Anscombe, Elizabeth, 54 apperception: achievement of unity and, 28; consciousness as, 18, 22, 31, 34n31, 48n43, 51; experience and, 71–72; Hegel’s thesis of, 8–10, 13n8, 14–16, 39, 94; intelligence, 69; intuition and, 42–43; Kant on, 58–59; self-knowledge and, 65; self-positing and, 85 Aristotle, 3, 12n7 aufgehoben, 43 authority: acknowledgment of, 50, 91n1; attribution of, 89–90; commitment and, 73–78; linguistic community and, 18; recognition of, 74–78, 90–95; responsibility and, 85–86; self-attribution of, 94–95, 97n5; social negotiation of, 82n28 Befriedigung, 21n22 Begehrensvermögen, 56 Begierde, überhaupt, 2; central passage on, 20–34, 39; gehemmte, 93; McDowell’s interpretation of, 13, 39–40; Streben compared with, 55; translations of, 14n11, 20, 37n33, 93. See also desire, self-consciousness as Begriff, der, 10n5, 13, 47 belief: concept of belief and, 54, 61n6, 94–95; false, 16n14 Berlin Phenomenology (Hegel), 21n21, 26, 27n26 bildet, 93 Bondsman, or Slave (Knecht), 11, 13, 40, 43, 48n43, 63, 86–87, 93–95 Brandom, Robert, 11, 14–15n12, 68–70, 76, 77–79, 80, 82n28, 85 Categories, Table of (Kant), 33 commitment: avowals of, 14–15n12, 15, 19, 37, 74, 89–91, 95; Brandom’s understanding of, 78; incompatible, 93; normative character of, 39, 83; 100 index commitment (cont’d) responsibility and, 85; sacrifice and, 73–76, 79; sustaining, 65–68 community, linguistic, 1, 18n16, 70n15 conditioned, the, 56, 80; vs. unconditioned , 56 consciousness: as always beyond itself, 21–22, 25–26, 28, 34n31, 38, 45, 52, 57, 60, 77, 81, 83; as apperceptive , 34n31, 39; contents of, 31; defeasable, 16n14, 37, 38; double nature of, 20–22, 35n32; existence of otherness for, 28, 29–30; Kant’s understanding of, 7–8; negativity and, 25–26; phenomenology of, 102; as positional, 64–65, 73n20; as reflective or apperceptive, 8–9; relation to self-consciousness, 9–14, 20–22, 27, 34–37, 46, 49–50, 60; unhappy, 43n38, 95–97 contradictions, 24, 97 Dasein, 36 Davidson, Donald, 61n6 death, fight (struggle) to the, 11, 13–14, 14n12, 38–39, 43, 48n43, 52, 61–64, 75, 78, 85–86, 90 Deduction, Transcendental (Kant), 40 dependence: “equipoise” between independence and, 12, 13–14, 42; freedom from, 79; of Master on Bondsman, 64, 94; McDowell’s understanding of, 48n43, 69–70; on resolution of challenges, 39; sociality and, 19, 62–64; in structuralism, 4; subject-object relation and, 46n41; as temporary condition, 87 Descartes, René, 3, 52 desire: animal, 21–22n22, 30–31, 34– 35, 37n33, 66–67, 78, 80, 90; animal vs. human, 21–22n22, 30–31, 36–37, 37n33, 67–68, 71, 77n25; of another ’s desire, 91; human, 21–22n22, 30–31, 37n33, 67–68, 75–76, 77n25; life as object of, 32, 34–39, 46; McDowell ’s interpretation of, 39–51; reason as expression of, 56; refusal of, 20; repressed, 63–64; satisfaction of, 28, 36–37, 45, 52, 60, 65, 71–72, 79, 80–82, 97; self-consciousness as, 2, 6–53, 55, 58, 60, 79; subject of, 10–11, 19–20, 32, 73, 80; subject to, 32, 37, 66, 73, 74n21, 80, 82. See also Begierde überhaupt disposition, reliable differential responsive , 69 dualism, 51, 52 Ends, Kingdom of (Kant), 92 Entzweiung, 32 epistemology, 3, 4 equipoise (McDowell), 12, 41, 42, 44 erotic images, 12n7, 56n2, 57, 70n16 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 9n3, 29, 35n31, 55, 57–58 finitude, 62–63, 74n21 Foucault, Michel, 4, 83n29 freedom: achieved status of, 17n14; constraints on, 52, 94n3; in German Idealist thought, 5; self-liberation, 94; as temporary condition, 87; thought as, 95–96. See also independence Freudian psychology, 22, 51, 63 Galileo Galilei, 22 gehemmte Begierde, 93 Geist. See spirit (Geist) generalization, 1 Habermas, Jürgen, 18n16 Heidegger, Martin, 4, 25, 36 Henrich, Dieter, 9n3 histories, natures vs...