Thank you for this introduction to Recognition. (I don’t know if it’s technically an “introduction” but it was for me, having never heard of the concept before.) I like that it has justice, morality, etc, flowing from “being seen.” While that phrase might have pop-psychological connotations, it seems like the most direct way to establish equality. Other systems seem to require you to first adopt certain beliefs (social contract? religion?) as a foundation or impetus for equality—so if you question or reject those beliefs, what impetus is there for equality? Recognition or “being seen” just seems to require that you look around you and see you are a human being among other human beings—visibly equal. (This seems like an aspect of Kant’s thinking.) At that point, if you want to abuse other people, then you have to come up with your justification for doing so—in other words, in a world of visibly equal people, you have to make the first move to deny equality. You have to deny something that is visible to all—a clear and distinct idea, a la Descartes. The above incoherent rambling aside, maybe recognition’s advantage as a central norm is its intuitive accessibility?