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"For Self-Consciousness, and hence philosophy, to exist, then, there must be in Man not only positive, passive contemplation, that merely reveals being, but also negating Desire, and hence Action that transforms the given being. The human I must be an I of Desire – that is, an active I, a negating I, an I that transforms Being and creates a new being by destroying the given being."

- Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, p. 38.