Although there definitely are some connections – the movement of recognition is but a prolongation of desire – the struggle for life and death can therefore hardly be read in the Hobbesian terms. It is not so much about possession or domination, and it is not provoked by any previous infringement. It rather follows out of the immanent need to prove to the other that “for self-consciousness, the essence is not being, not the immediate way it appears in, not its immersion into the expanse of life” (§187). The fight is fought in order to be recognized as “pure being-for-itself”.