Recognition
Crucially, for Hegel, absolute knowledge, or Spirit, cannot come to be without first a self-consciousness recognizing another self-consciousness. Such an issue in the history of philosophy had never been explored (except by Johann Gottlieb Fichte) and its treatment marks a watershed in European philosophy.
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