"Now, the analysis of "thought" "reason," "understanding" and so on-in general, of the cognitive, contemplative, passive behavior of a being or a "knowing subject"-never reveals the why or the how of the birth of the word "I," and consequently of self-consciousness-that , of the human reality. The ma"
"For that idea to be a truth, it must reveal an objective reality-i.e., an entity that is valid and exists not only for itself, but also for realities other than itself. In the case in question, man, to be really, truly "men," and to know that he is such, must, therefore, impose the idea that he has "
"The Slave is subordinated to the Master. Hence the Slave esteems, recognizes, the value and the reality of "autonomy," of human freedom. However, he does not find it realized in himself; he finds it only in the Other who recognized him. And this is his advantage. The Master, to recognize the Other w"
"the man who works recognizes- his own product in the World that has actually been transformed by his work: he recognizes himself in it, he sees in it his own human reality, in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity, of the originally abstract and purely subjectiv"