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Being and Nothingness Side B

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The Master's Slave Dialectic

Hegel's idea is that, that you're using the proper terms, I'm tempted to always the same master's slave following codes, Alexander Kojev, but I at least skipped myself to say master's servant. And so, once the person capitulates and then says, okay, I'll be your servant and gives you recognition, then their recognition is valueless. That's basically Hegel's point. The rest of the phenomenology of spirit after this dialectic is basically the servant's pathway. It's the servant, like the servant is the winner, basically. But Sartre's depiction of love is kind of like the worst macho, like notches on the

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