This new critique of pride, leading not to solitary mortification
but to a politics of equal dignity, is what Hegel took
up and made famous in his dialectic of the master and the
slave. Against the old discourse on the evil of pride, he takes
it as fundamental that we can flourish only to the extent that
we are recognized. Each consciousness seeks recognition in
another, and this is not a sign of a lack of virtue. But the ordinary
conception of honor as hierarchical is crucially flawed.
It is flawed because it cannot answer the need that sends
people after recognition in the first place. Those who fail to
win out in the honor stakes remain unrecognized. But even
those who do win are more subtly frustrated, because they
win recognition from the losers, whose acknowledgment is,
by hypothesis, not really valuable, since they are no longer
free, self-supporting subjects on the same level with the winners.
The struggle for recognition can find only one satisfactory
solution, and that is a regime of reciprocal recognition
among equals. Hegel follows Rousseau in finding this regime
in a society with a common purpose, one in which
there is a “‘we’ that is an ‘I’, and an ‘I’ that is a ‘we’.”27
But if we think of Rousseau as inaugurating the new politics
of equal dignity, we can argue that his solution is crucially
flawed. In terms of the question posed at the beginning
of this section, equality of esteem requires a tight unity of
purpose that seems to be incompatible with any differentiation.
The key to a free polity for Rousseau seems to be a rigorous
exclusion of any differentiation of roles. Rousseau’s
principle seems to be that for any two-place relation R involving
power, the condition of a free society is that the two
terms joined by the relation be identical. x R y is compatible
with a free society only when x = y. This is true when the
relation involves the x’s presenting themselves in public
space to the y’s, and it is of course famously true when the
This new critique of pride, leading not to solitary mortification
but to a politics of equal dignity, is what Hegel took
up and made famous in his dialectic of the master and the
slave. Against the old discourse on the evil of pride, he takes
it as fundamental that we can flourish only to the extent that
we are recognized. Each consciousness seeks recognition in
another, and this is not a sign of a lack of virtue. But the ordinary
conception of honor as hierarchical is crucially flawed.
It is flawed because it cannot answer the need that sends
people after recognition in the first place. Those who fail to
win out in the honor stakes remain unrecognized. But even
those who do win are more subtly frustrated, because they
win recognition from the losers, whose acknowledgment is,
by hypothesis, not really valuable, since they are no longer
free, self-supporting subjects on the same level with the winners.
The struggle for recognition can find only one satisfactory
solution, and that is a regime of reciprocal recognition
among equals. Hegel follows Rousseau in finding this regime
in a society with a common purpose, one in which
there is a “‘we’ that is an ‘I’, and an ‘I’ that is a ‘we’.”27
But if we think of Rousseau as inaugurating the new politics
of equal dignity, we can argue that his solution is crucially
flawed. In terms of the question posed at the beginning
of this section, equality of esteem requires a tight unity of
purpose that seems to be incompatible with any differentiation.
The key to a free polity for Rousseau seems to be a rigorous
exclusion of any differentiation of roles. Rousseau’s
principle seems to be that for any two-place relation R involving
power, the condition of a free society is that the two
terms joined by the relation be identical. x R y is compatible
with a free society only when x = y. This is true when the
relation involves the x’s presenting themselves in public
space to the y’s, and it is of course famously true when the
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This new critique of pride, leading not to solitary mortification
but to a politics of equal dignity, is what Hegel took
up and made famous in his dialectic of the master and the
slave. Against the old discourse on the evil of pride, he takes
it as fundamental that we can flourish only to the extent that
we are recognized. Each consciousness seeks recognition in
another, and this is not a sign of a lack of virtue. But the ordinary
conception of honor as hierarchical is crucially flawed.
It is flawed because it cannot answer the need that sends
people after recognition in the first place. Those who fail to
win out in the honor stakes remain unrecognized. But even
those who do win are more subtly frustrated, because they
win recognition from the losers, whose acknowledgment is,
by hypothesis, not really valuable, since they are no longer
free, self-supporting subjects on the same level with the winners.
The struggle for recognition can find only one satisfactory
solution, and that is a regime of reciprocal recognition
among equals. Hegel follows Rousseau in finding this regime
in a society with a common purpose, one in which
there is a “‘we’ that is an ‘I’, and an ‘I’ that is a ‘we’.”27
But if we think of Rousseau as inaugurating the new politics
of equal dignity, we can argue that his solution is crucially
flawed. In terms of the question posed at the beginning
of this section, equality of esteem requires a tight unity of
purpose that seems to be incompatible with any differentiation.
The key to a free polity for Rousseau seems to be a rigorous
exclusion of any differentiation of roles. Rousseau’s
principle seems to be that for any two-place relation R involving
power, the condition of a free society is that the two
terms joined by the relation be identical. x R y is compatible
with a free society only when x = y. This is true when the
relation involves the x’s presenting themselves in public
space to the y’s, and it is of course famously true when the
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