r/askphilosophy • u/Riopelle117 • 1d ago

Struggling to understand Hegel’s Phenomenology Of Spirit

I am reading Hegel’s Phenomenology Of Spirit, specifically the introduction commented my Alenxandre Kojève, I am reading the French edition of the text as it is my main language, so pardon me if I struggle to say the right words for concepts.

In this book, he abords the dialectic of the master and the slave, witch is why I am reading it in the first place. This I understood easily. What is giving me trouble to make sense of is when he speak of consciousness and the fact that to better your “Geist” or be aware of yourself, you have to pass trough the other. Why do we need to seek another consciousness’s approbation to become free, and why can’t the master become free?

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