Hegel states that “self-consciousness reaches its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness” (Peters, 112). In other words, in order to recognize yourself, you need to recognize someone else. Hegel uses the example of a Möbius strip, a unity of two sides, but Hegel is more concerned with one side, the side relating to the union of others, to help us better understand ourselves and the world (Peters, 113 ). Furthermore, Peters continues to examine Hegel's view on recognition, Peters states that the process of recognition suggests that the outside of the self is hidden from itself as much as its inside is from others (Peters, 114). Interiority and exteriority are temporal rather than spatial (Peters, 114). This means that one's subjectivity is not implied when one has not received recognition from another (Peters, 114). Therefore
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