PHILOS 22 Chapter N/A: Hegel: phenomenon of the spirit notes
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Self-consciousness has three moments: the pure undifferentiated i, the satisfaction of. The object of self-consciousness is equally independent of it"s other self. Desire is independet of it"s universal destructive structure. The ambiguous supersession of itself ambiguous otherness is equally an ambiguous. It recevies its own self because it is equal to itself. An independent object doesn"t know of it"s existence if it doesn"t know what to do. The action has a double significance because it is directed against itself. The middle term is self consciousness, which splits into extremes. As a conscious it doesn"t come out of itself. They recognize themselves as mutually recognizing one another. Self-consciousness is equal through the exclusion of itself. What is the other for the negatively characterized objects. It"s certain of it"s own self but it doesn"t have truth. Only has truth if it confronts another independent object. Only possible when each find themselves through action.
