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According to Robert Solomon in his article ‘In the spirit of Hegel’, the self is only asserted when it reacts to something. It is not asserted by intuition. This reaction against a thought or an idea imposed by others on oneself
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"If nobody ever acknowledged your existence, you wouldn't exist as a person. You'd just be a person less body"1. Self Consciousness - or in other words self awareness and knowledge of what you truly are - exists in only being acknowledged or recognized. In being recognized we refer to someone else other than the self - 'The Other'. "A person is not courageous, or generous, or shy, or tall, or fat, except in the context of other people, and what they say to us."2 According to Robert Solomon in his article 'In the spirit of Hegel', the self is only asserted when it reacts to something. It is not asserted by intuition. This reaction against a thought or an idea imposed by others on oneself which for some reasons one finds unacceptable. Hence, the self goes into contradiction between two things, the self of the person himself and the...
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