Alienation is a distinctively modern concept never applied to Greek divinity

Evidence

The concept of Entäußerung never appears when Hegel is analysing the thought of the Greeks. For the Greek mind, God is not posed as an unattainable beyond, nor is the relation to God conceived as a split between two ‘sides’. Equally, a Greek god who distanced himself from himself in an ‘appearance for himself’ would be something unimaginable. Alienation is an idea which belongs unquestionably to modern times, and its temporality is that of the finite phenomenal subject. The divine kenosis and philosophical kenosis are for Hegel fundamentally interdependent to the degree that they share one another’s mode of time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 823

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Dates and places kenosis — valuable for contrasting Greek circular plasticity against Christian-modern self-distancing temporality.

Related

• Alienation is a distinctly modern idea unknown to Greek thought (similarity 0.94)
• Hegelian alienation is an epoch-specific temporal process, not an atemporal category (similarity 0.88)
• Divine alienation manifests a new ontological mode of time, not lack (similarity 0.87)
• Hegel’s alienation is a historically specific, modern-Christian concept, not an eternal one (similarity 0.87)
• Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness (similarity 0.84)
• God’s self-alienation manifests a new mode of time, not lack (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel subordinates God to the necessity of the dialectic (similarity 0.82)
• God’s alienation and philosophical reason’s negativity are the same movement (similarity 0.81)
• The time sublated in Absolute Knowledge is alienation itself, not time generally (similarity 0.81)
• Heidegger flattens dialectical time to prove it is flattened (similarity 0.80)
• God as transcendental imagination is a temporalizing instance opening an absolute future (similarity 0.80)
• Modern subjectivity is essentially a philosophical continuation of divine kenosis (similarity 0.80)
• Divine subjectivity is a process of temporalization, not a fixed presence (similarity 0.80)
• God’s self-alienation paradoxically offers no genuine outside to escape into (similarity 0.79)
• Divine alienation is simultaneously receptivity and spontaneity in God. (similarity 0.79)