Full Idea
Hegel tries to show that knowledge of self as subject presupposes not just knowledge of objects, but knowledge of a public social world, in which there is moral order and civic trust.
Gist of Idea
For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.12
Book Reference
Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.177
A Reaction
This is not far off Wittgenstein's private language argument. It is also Popper's 'World Three', of society and language. Human reality is incomprehensible without some recognition of the culture in which we immerse, like fish in water.