Recognition

The relation in which one subject treats another as a subject - as someone who can weigh reasons and raise objections, not as an object about which one merely judges. Recognition is not a moral add-on requirement for thinking, but its presupposition: whoever argues has already presumed the other to be capable of judgment. Whoever denies him this capacity in the content of his argument contradicts himself performatively. In the logic it does not appear as a category in its own right - Hegel presupposes it without thematizing it. This commentary makes this presupposition explicit, because it concerns the status of the entire presentation: a logic is set forth to someone.