whenyouarenothing: From left to right: F.H. Bradley: Killed!, George Bernard Shaw: Accident!, Immanu
whenyouarenothing: From left to right: F.H. Bradley: Killed!, George Bernard Shaw: Accident!, Immanuel Kant: His mortal existence achieved its termination!, Jonathan Swift: Accident!, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel: The finite termination of infinity had been determined by its own negation!“All human, anthropogenetic desire—the desire that generates self-consciousness, the human reality—is, finally, a function of the desire for “recognition.” And the risk of life by which the human reality “comes to light” is a risk for the sake of such a desire. Therefore, to speak of the “origin” of self-consciousness is necessarily to speak of a fight to the death for “recognition.”—Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of HegelInspiration: Arthur Holmes: A History of Philosophy -- source link