A man who has no object to negate has no real future
Evidence
Man who no longer relates himself … to an object given externally, thus has no further reason to negate it for the sake of remaining in existence and conserving his self-identity. And Man who no longer negates has no real future. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 217
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Negation of an external object is what generates a living future. (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future
#corroborates(0.92) - An individual justifies himself only through a future-oriented project, never through present facticity
#expands(0.85) - A man from nowhere who kills himself instantiates the postmodern self without a story.
#exemplifies(0.82) - A fully predictable, reified self gives up any reason for living
#corroborates(0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 473 - Man’s nature includes refusal and negation alongside affirmation
#expands(0.80) - Man is fundamentally the desire to be, a lack of being
#expands(0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1329 - Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit
#qualifies(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 605