On the eidetics of recognition

Self-consciousness is in and for itself in and through the fact that it exists in and for itself for an other. That is, it exists only as recognized or acknowledged. The concept of this unity in its doubling, the infinity realizing itself in self-consciousness, is a many-sided intersection of and correlation between multiple and diverse meanings. Consequently its elements must, on the one hand, be precisely distinguished and kept separate, and on the other hand these must be taken as not different in their differentiation, or they must be taken and known in their opposite meaning. The double signification of the distinguished elements lies in the nature of self-consciousness to be infinite, or to be immediately the opposite of the determination in which it is posited. The exposition of this spiritual unity in its doubling will present the movement of recognition.

- G.W.F Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
(trans. Robert R. Williams)