In sections 190-193 of Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel examines the relationship between lord and slave. In this examination of the relationship, Hegel sets out to discover what lord and slave offer each other in terms of existence and/or identity. The formulation that Hegel made in the selected sections is that the slave had more to gain in terms of intellectual growth than his lord who becomes intellectually dormant due to the slave acting in the image of his lord. In section 190, Hegel begins with the lord. existing in so many things to be dependent on another consciousness. Hegel writes: “is a [lord] consciousness existing for itself and mediated with itself by another consciousness, that is to say by a [slave] consciousness whose nature is to be bound” (Hegel 115). In this passage, Hegel shows why the lord depends on the slave. The lord only exists “for himself” through his need and through the mediation of the slave. Since the slave is bound as an object of desire to the lord, the slave must submit to his lord because of the physical and monetary power he cedes. Although it may seem that the lord has an advantage in using the slave for his own purposes. winning through the deterrence of power, Hegel shows how to win more. Hegel writes: “What desire has not succeeded in achieving, it succeeds in doing, that is, in completely putting an end to the thing and obtaining the satisfaction of enjoying it. Desire did not achieve this because of the independence of the [servant] thing” (Hegel 116). This passage shows why the lord has much more to lose because the slave acts as an independent conscience of intentionally not wanting to submit to his lord. How...... in the middle of paper...... from the lord. In section 192, Hegel writes: “He [the Lord] is therefore not certain of being for himself as the truth of himself” (Hegel 117). In this passage, the lord gains no intellectual growth because he hears what he wants to hear from the slave who appeals to him since the slave is in the image of the lord. In section 193, Hegel shows why the slave wins. Hegel writes: “Servitude, in its consummation, will actually become the opposite of what it immediately is...It will turn in on itself and transform into a truly independent consciousness” (Hegel 117). In this passage, the slave's ability to perceive this dialectical problem transforms him into an independent consciousness. With this gain of an independent consciousness through the dialectical problem, his gain exceeds that of the lord since the lord hears what he wants to hear..