ABSTRACT
"Lordship and Bondage" is one of the most famous subparts of the Phenomenology. It is often called the "Master-Slave Dialectic''. Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself, in that and by the fact that it exists for another self-consciousness; that is to say, it is only by being acknowledged or "recognized''. Self-consciousness has before it another self-consciousness; it has come outside itself. The truth of the independent consciousness is accordingly the consciousness of the bondsman. In the moment that corresponds to desire in the case of the master's consciousness, the aspect of the nonessential relation to the thing seemed to fall to the lot of the servant, since the thing there retained its independence. Consciousness finds that it immediately is and is not another consciousness, as also that this other is for itself only when it cancels itself as existing for itself and has self-existence only in the self-existence of the other.
