Recognition from the view of Hegel

Abstract

This research investigates the role and concept of “recognition” in Hegelian philosophical thought. The concept of recognition becomes important when it explains two areas of individual freedom and his relationship with others and the society in the Hegelian philosophical system. According to the Hegelian philosophy, recognition helps man go from an “abstract” me to an “attached” me. Hegel most uses the concept of recognition in family by which he defines the status of love and conflict. For Hegel, “love” creates marriages and forms the family, whereas conflict creates the natural and social situation. In its dimensional role in the individual and family, recognition should consider its interests to be those which are reflected in social institutions for alienation, as Hegel suggests it is possible for freedom and recognition to get separated. The sense Hegel conveys by recognition indicates that the “other” does not serve as one’s freedom; rather as an end rule. The main problem of this research is the way “recognition” is applied by Hegel to reconcile one’s freedom with the social essence and to provide a solution to the relationship between one’s will and the “desire” of the collective will.