Kojève and the end of history
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Kojève's reading made the master–slave dialectic central to twentieth-century French thought. He emphasised the desire for recognition and the idea that history would end when universal recognition was achieved. That political reading is one-sided—Hegel's section is a moment in the development of spirit—but it opened up the text for existential and Marxist interpretations.
Averrois
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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