Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:42:21 -0500
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc-AT-cloud9.net>
Subject: Re: society and technology


jeremy hunsinger wrote:
> 
> Master/slave dialectic is from hegel's phenomenology of spirit.
> 
> sdv wrote:
> >
> > darren,
> >
> > Sorry but where did the master/slave continuum come from?
[snip]

There is another story of dialectical human interaction in
Hegel's _Phenomenology_, a couple hundred pages further
along Spirit's trajectory of ever greater self-knowledge.

I often wonder why this later story is not more widely publicized.
My sad speculation is that products of repressive childrearing
-- like most of ourselves -- prefer pain and ambivalence to 
straightforward delight -- not to speak of the issue that 
formal democracies have outlawed "slavery", but they
have not reached the stage of outlawing *wage labor*, which
is damned in Hegel's later story!

I am referring to, of course, the story of The Gentleman and his
Butler, in which the "gentleman" confesses to having been what his
butler all along knew he was, and, *after that confession, the
butler reconciles himself with his now no-longer-"superior".

Hegel describes this moment of reconciliation, in which
class society (and all other mystified human hierarchy...)
is overcome, as:

    God appearing in the midst of those who know themselves in
    the form of pure knowledge.

Perhaps 2001 will indeed be a new dawn for humanity -- not
just a "space odyssey" ("moving around"), but at last
a beginning of the journey into the transfiguration
of daily life (including in tech school classrooms and
technical workplaces...), into the realization of Hegel's
(Husserl's, et al.) great humane vision?

    http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/2001.html

"Yours in discourse..."

+\brad mccormick

-- 
  Let your light so shine before men, 
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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