10.03.05..7:47 pm

Hegel takes twenty-four separate sections (numbered for your convenience) to explain that one's conscious recognises itself as a conscious ONLY AFTER it recognises that it is different from an Other conscious thus making it an individual conscious existing as a separate entity from ALL OTHER CONSCIOUSES that similarly recognise themselves to be conscious ONLY AFTER having conceived themselves as a conscious that is not 'you.' Thus the immediacy of the 'I' is plausible only after and in terms of it being latently recognisable against that of an other 'I' which is in fact 'you.'

THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE because the conscious 'I' is NEGATED by the death of itself (?).

On a totally different note, philosophers are constantly CAUGHT IN THE GRIPS of a struggle between acknowledging their desire to know their world and knowing their world rationally. Could it be, I mean could it REALLY BE that desire is a rational thing? Could rationality be ILLOGICAL? If metaphysical algebra has anything to say about it the answer to both is a resounding YES!

(could I love this shit any more? I truly think not)