ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts covered in this book. In examining what positive recognition might involve and giving two potential examples, this work has taken German Idealism in general, and the work of Hegel in particular, as a promising historical source of material and argument. Particularly as the author's purpose in this discussion goes a long way beyond commenting on the history of philosophy, this has involved a great deal of interpretation of the work of Hegel and other German Idealists, particularly Kant. Hegel did not want to create an ethics of recognition in the sense that the author have been concerned with in this work. Whilst concerned with the ethical life and with what we now call intersubjectivity, he did not want to prescribe any ethics, even to the extremely limited extent that the author's discussion of recognition makes some suggestions about how to treat the other.
