/lit/ - Literature

>>11204646
honestly anon one of the most beautiful things i've read on this recently was in the phenomenology of spirit:

>Spirit certain of itself in its objective existence takes as the element of its existence nothing but the knowledge of self. that what it does in accord with its ideas of duty makes them its duty. there is still, however, an opposition between pure duty and the external world and what men in it do. but with the act of forgiving another, this last opposition vanishes, and in all human action the Ego only encounters the Ego.

>this knowledge must somehow unite the religious consciousness, with its pictorial otherness, and the moral spirit, which is simply the self in action facing the two possibilities of the evil and the good. the religious spirit and the moral spirit must abandon their rigid distinction from each other. the hard-edged, abstract, out-thereness of religion, its presentative character, must blend with the personal inwardness of the moral spirit. they must in fact both lose themselves in a new spirit.

>in this new spirit the content of religion must become the action of the self, must be seen by the self as expressing phases of its own interior drama.

the ferry scene was the denouement of the dark knight for this reason. but hegel also believed that forgiveness was a part of self-recognition in this way. punishment, mimesis, reciprocity and ressentiment all work until you want to get off that ride. but maybe Into Trenches means just recognizing that so is the other guy. but if everything is trenches...

it's hard tho. i'm no expert. but what hegel says about forgiveness, the capacity to forgive being a part of recognition, and that this only in turn follows having arrived at a point where you can actually grasp the profound vertigo of having a consciousness not backed by the gold-standard of the furies &c...

that's what i've got atm on the subject.