Recognition

The relation in which one subject treats another as a subject - as someone who can examine reasons and raise objections, not as an object about which judgments are made. Recognition is not a moral add-on to thought but its precondition: whoever argues has already presupposed the other as capable of judgment. Whoever denies the other this capacity in the content of their argument contradicts themselves performatively. In the Logic it does not appear as a category in its own right - Hegel presupposes it without making it a theme. The commentary makes this presupposition explicit, because it concerns the status of the entire presentation: a logic is set out for someone.