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- Dear Group,Perception # 128'Being-for-self' and ‘being-for-another' consists of the full being of the object that consciousness grasps. Hegel is referring to ‘conceptual being’ in its absolute and universal sense, not individual existence. It is once again the case of the conceptual sense of the object as it initially refers to the object in the phenomenological domain. The object refers to itself (being-for-self) and it refers to an other (being-for-another). It is this ongoing relationship that is crucial to the Hegelian conceptual development of the individual object as the agent strives to universalize it in its fullest. There is always alienation of the subject (consciousness) with the object, and we should add that there can be no domain of the object without the domain of the subject. This is what phenomenology is all about; that is, the subject and the object are both part of the essence of consciousness. In other words, the being of the object has no reality without the being of the subject. This is in the pure domain of idealism and challenges the tenets of realism, but does it really? Hegel is only referring to the reality that the mind conjures. He does not deny the reality outside the mind. The reality that he strives to understand is ultimate reality in its fullness. It is not just the reality of time and space as realism offers. It is the full being of an entity that Hegel seeks in all this, that is most important, since ‘full being’ indicates a more secure cognition of reality, and if we have a more secure cognition of reality we get to the truth of things.Regards,Bob Fanelli