Translations:Recognition/4/en

"Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition outlines how the formation of a democratic personality requires the three forms of self-relation. We need caring and loving individuals and these are produced through and by those with selfconfidence. It requires a good recognition of the reciprocal nature of legal rights and, as one might anticipate, only a person who possesses self-respect (the capacity to know one’s own rights) can recognise the rights of others. And thirdly, a democratic society requires the reciprocal recognition of work and again, only a person with good levels of self-esteem can recognise the contribution of others. If care and selfconfidence are learned originally in the family and self-respect the product of schooling and education one is led to ask how in a modern world one can acquire selfesteem." (source: Ted Fleming & Fergal Finnegan, Honneth and Recognition as Sensitizing Concept for Narrative Analysis: An Irish suggestion)  

Hegel +	Contexts in which one develops ways of relating to self (or forms of social organisation	Forms of Relating to Self  (stages of identity development)	One Can…	Task for..
Family (love)	Relations of friendship & love	Self- confidence	Care	Parents, carers
Civil society (rights)	Recognised as autonomous person with rights	Self-respect	Recognise legal rights	School
State (solidarity & recognition from work) or in AH any community of affiliation	Performance of ones freedom and autonomy through work = how the community values one’s contribution	Self-esteem	Recognise the contribution of others	Society (incl adult and higher education

The three forms of recognition according to Axel Honneth after Hegel (source: Ted Fleming & Fergal Finnegan, Honneth and Recognition as Sensitizing Concept for Narrative Analysis: An Irish suggestion).