Kojeve's Existentialism

Here's Kojeve
>In other words, the very being of this I will be becoming, and the universal form of this being will not be space, but time. Therefore, its continuation in existence will signify for this I: "not to be what it is (as static and given being, as natural being, as 'innate character') and to be (that is, to become) what it is not." Thus, this I will be its own product: it will be (in the future) what it has become by negation (in the present) of what it was (in the past), this negation being accomplished with a view to what it will become. In its very being this I is intentional becoming, deliberate evolution, conscious and voluntary progress; it is the act of transcending the given that is given to it and that it itself is.

Spirit is the "I" that _knows_ _this_ _about_ _itself_. I am a "transcendence of the given" conscious of myself as such. But I was already a transcendence of the given before I became aware of this, and it was this transcendence of the given that made my self-knowledge possible in the first place. The past is not fixed. I am not only my past in the mode of no longer being it, but also my past is the past in the mode of no longer being it.

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