By Paul Cobben
The human self is a loose self that will get form in a society within which it truly is either equivalent to the others (as the felony one that acknowledges the others as loose and equivalent) and designated (as the ethical one who isn't really exchangeable to the others). hence, the fashionable debate on society is ruled through the choice of the relation among correct and morality. In a feedback of Habermas, Honneth, Rawls and others, this paintings argues that this relation should be built as a scientific elaboration of the mind-body-relation. in keeping with the Hegelian culture, acceptance to start with issues the popularity of the physique by means of the brain.
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In that sense the outside world only has independence for the self-consciousness, and the real independence is transferred to the self-consciousness. The outside world can never be more important than the self-consciousness, because the distinction between the self-consciousness and the outside world is only brought about by the self-consciousness, itself. But also, a potential dictator belongs to the outside world. How can the self-consciousness ever conform to a dictator without doing violence to itself ?
Their peaceful cohabitation is not trivial: Animals also have the possibility to struggle even when they belong to the same species. Therefore, their 37 Cf. ” 30 Chapter 1 The Human Self as the Unity of Mind and Body living-together presupposes a principle that banishes the struggle and allows them to coordinate their conduct. The cohabitation of the members of a flock not only implies that they can live in each others neighborhood, but also that they have the ability to coordinate action. Only this coordination gives the flock its unity as a flock.
It can be put forward that these animals from a natural predestination are predetermined to live in a flock, although it does not have to be clear in advance which position they will take within the flock. In some flocks the struggle for leadership can break out in which the strongest succeeds. Even in that case, the existence of the flock as such is not the result of the physical power of a triumphing leader. The struggle is not about the constitution of the flock, but rather about the individual that will exercise the leading role in the flock.