In the preceding considerations, Hegel the philosopher simply analysed the concept of recognitionm delineating the list od necessary conditions that have to be met in ordertthat a successful recognition could happen it is only "now" that we proceed to the level of experience. The concrete shape the natural consciousness takes "at first" is that of two self-conscious individuals which immediately "exist for themselves in the way orfdinary objects do", as "independent shpes absoorbed in the being of life". The “enlivenment” of self-conscious subject takes place as a direct reflection of the object’s subjectivation: since the objectof desire acquired the form of life and since there is now no ontologicaldifference between the I and its object, the subject is a living being, too.

Zdravko Kobe: True Sacrifice, on Hegel’s Presentation of Self-Consciousness