The Origins of Forms of Recognition and Their Evolution:Honneth's Interpretation of Hegel's Jenenser Realphilosophie
Hegel's Jenenser Realphilosophie has received increasing international scholarly attention.Honneth argues that Jenenser Realphilosophie presents,more clearly than System der Sittlichkeit,hierarchical forms of recognition(i.e.,love,law,and solidarity)as the logical main line of spiritual development.First of all,the subjective spirit,being unsatisfied with its own state,expects to find itself in reality(i.e.,in the Other),to own its own essence,which initially manifests it-self in the form of recognition of love resulting from gender interaction.But love in the family sphere is destined to be an un-finished field of experience.Once the subjective spirit leaves the family,and the spirit undergoes the transition from the"state of nature"to the social contract,Hegel uses the legal form of recognition as an intermediary to build a new empirical stage of individual will(i.e.,legal person).However,the provocation of the criminal act will cause the law as a universal will to be divided again.Therefore,Hegel seeks to reconstruct the legal system in the higher sphere of the state and the community,which,as Honneth points out,is the form of recognition of"solidarity".In Honneth's view,the threads of recognition in Jenenser Realphi-losophie are further enriched in Phanomenologie des Geistes and Grundlinien DerPhilosophie des Rechts,which proves that the evo-lution of the forms of recognition essentially reflects the process of externalization and actualization of spirit.
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