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).