Didn Hegel say that the Master/Slave relationship is the eternal relationship of humanity?
No. The Master/Slave relationship occupies a relevant, yet not so crucial as sometimes implied, section within Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”. Some authors, particularly in France (where they were expression of different trends of existentialism), attempted at making this relationship the core issue within Hegel’s philosophy, and one who would have later inspired Marx and his concept of class warfare. What it is important in Hegel’s description of the Master/Slave relationship is first of all the concept of “struggle for recognition”. The very beginning of the Master/Slave relationship is caused by one of the parties of this struggle for recognition giving up his fight for fear of the death. Therefore the winner of this struggle gets his recognition by the loser, who can only survive as a Slave to his new Master. The second important point of this relationship is that, according to Hegel, it is unstable and destined to be overcome. From the vantage point of the Master, it is quickly
