IDENTITY AND ADOLESCENCE FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF RECOGNITION

Abstract

The article reviews the role of mutual recognition in the subject’s selfunderstanding based on Axel Honneth’s theory and relates it to the philosophical notion of autonomy, as well as to a moral conception of identity. The article emphasizes the adolescent stage and considers challenges that the philosophical perspective of recognition identifies in the development of autonomy. Finally, it suggests a few attitudes that adults can adopt in order to commit to the process of those who go through adolescence.