Alexandre Kojeve Quotes on Freedom
Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian-born French philosopher whose lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes from 1933 to 1939 shaped a generation of French intellectuals, including Sartre, Beauvoir, Bataille, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty. This page collects quotes attributed to Alexandre Kojeve on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alexandre Kojeve:
“Man is desire, and human desire is the desire of another desire.”
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Attributed to Alexandre Kojeve:
“History is the dialectic of master and slave.”
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Attributed to Alexandre Kojeve:
“The end of history is the universal recognition of the dignity of every human being.”
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“The being invested with authority is then necessarily an agent , and the authoritarian act is always an absolute (conscious and free) act . However, the authoritarian act is distinguished from all other acts by the fact that it does not encounter opposition from the person or persons towards whom it is directed. This in turn presupposes both the possibility of opposing it and the conscious and voluntary renunciation of realising this possibility.”
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