PHIL-247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bourgeoisie, Legal Personality
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The slave as a particular: the slave remains bound to his animal life, his particular. The slaves create this absolute master (god) who recognizes everyone ; both master. Contradiction: the ideal of freedom, the reality of slavery. Master, slavery, and overcoming (the synthesis of master and slave, the creation of the universal and homogenous state attributed to napoleon) Master receives recognition, but not as a recognition of them: their only action is in war or the idle work of the slave universality work. The slave will recognize the truth of the situation: their potential for freedom, which they see in the master. The pagan state: the only people with status as citizens are the masters; slaves are only there to labour and create objects for the master to consume. The christian world: the slaves will come to believe in god, an eternal world of being versus the reality of becoming; takes power by the masters no longer the ultimate beings.
