Lev Chernyi: ”These relations [between people] can be the following:
1) When one man finds himself in a state of subordination to another. In this case, he will be politically and morally annihilated: all his faculties belong to the other.
2) When one man finds himself the master of another. In this case, he will consider himself the proprietor of all the activities of that other.
3) When one individual is in a relation with another in such a manner that he appreciates the personality of that other as if it was his own.”
Numbers 1 & 2 are really the same relation, but from different sides; Chernyi is describing what Nyberg calls “the property”:
“The relation can be a one-sidedly willed one. In this, the one is an Einzige [unique] whereas the Other has become Eigentum [property] (for the one who is Einzige). Perhaps this is the state of things where we can say “Hell is the Other” (i.e. when that Other guy is Einzige and I am reduced to a role as Eigentum).”
Missing from Chernyi’s classification is the bond:
“This is a meeting of two people according to how they 'ought to' behave towards one another. It is not as such a meeting which is willed, but rather a meeting according to the 'ought'. Examples of such are when the father and the son meet in the roles of father and son. ‘Father' and 'son' they will always remain in a descriptive sense. But when they meet according to such roles, they meet by an 'ought' and not by a 'will'. Roles are ascribed when the relation is seen as a static object.”
