Hegel Questions (worked with Nataly Montaño).

1.     -Consciousness is the recognition of one another; self-recognition is the realization of others and in turn our own recognition. Humans have a desire to be recognized and therefore achieve consciousness.

2.     -Because we are conscious we are meant to be social and a political beings. Descartes said “I think therefore I am”  Once we achieve  the reality of our consciousness we can then identify ourselves as individuals within a larger group or unity.

3.     -Sensuous Certainty: the form of consciousness that takes itself to be aware of the simple, immediate presence of things.

-Absolute Knowing: Logical knowing which is developed from Sensuous Certainty.

4.     -“This, here, now” Complex union of different times and stages, which stretch back to different  “here, this and now”. This three words are simple ways to express this complex set of times and instances.  Hegel proposes that perception grasps objects as part of this union of many here’s and now’s, but it cant be determined where in its multiplicity it stands.

5.     -Our perception can distinguish between the inner unities of an object but when it recognizes this, it then becomes an understanding instead of a perception. Understating of this inner unity then makes it distinct from us and therefore follows its own reason and laws in life. Our understanding of this subject is not only our consciousness of objects but also our self-consciousness, because we can understand the qualities of an object that makes it itself.

6.     -As conscious individuals we enjoy ourselves through other objects that have their own separate consciousness but enjoy themselves through us.

7.     -Humans are able to enjoy themselves because of each of our self-conscious, and we can reach self-satisfaction when other is able to recognize our selves.

8.     -Hegel states that conflict will not arise in the dependency of our self-consciousness, however because we rely on others to achieve our recognition it should create conflicts.

9.     -Intersubjectivity is not a realistic idea HOWEVER it must take place for social interaction to happen.

10.  -For humans to be able to recognize their being others must be able to consciously recognizes others separate beings therefore solidifies our own existence.