My paper focuses on some of the main topics of Carmelo Vigna’s philosophical work; firstly, the relational dimension of the personal substance tied to its consciousness; the transcendental feature of the human consciousness; its activation in the interpersonal relationship. Secondly, I examine– with special reference to the Hegelian Phenomenology - the physiological form of this relationship (i.e. the mutual recognition) and its fundamental pathological form (the form of the enslavement). Lastly, I analyze the different ways of the mutual recognition by means of the “Golden Rule”.
