Christianity makes divine self-vision a single decisive moment.
Evidence
Although the Aesthetics seems at first glance to preclude the use of plasticity in characterizing the romantic ideal, its relevance is in fact decisively affirmed. Essential to the romantic ideal are those very elements that give the formula ‘to see (what is) coming’ its quasi-literal meaning: … The inner being (of the Greek gods) does not look out of them as self-knowing inwardness in this spiritual concentration which the eye discloses. This light of the soul falls outside them and belongs to the spectator alone; when he looks at these shapes, soul cannot meet soul nor eye. But the God of romantic art appears seeing, self-knowing, inwardly subjective, and disclosing his inner being to man’s inner being. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 852 (
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The Christian God is for Hegel the primal instance of the speculative. In the Christian God the gaze is born, for he is the very exemplar of the reflecting eye. Here the formula ‘to see (what is) coming’ truly comes into its own, its structure expressing the self-movement of the divine hypotyposis. As God manifests himself to his own gaze, the specular presentation divides the divine self from itself, offering the divine the perspectival vision of its own self-presence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 854 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: God’s self-seeing in a single moment is Christianity’s speculative principle.; The Christian God is the first figure that sees itself coming — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 852; God’s self-gaze divides the divine self by perspectival distance — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 854 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- God’s self-seeing in a single moment is Christianity’s speculative principle.
#corroborates(1.00) - The Christian God is the first figure that sees itself coming
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 852 - God’s self-gaze divides the divine self by perspectival distance
#qualifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 854 - God’s self-gaze is the model for all speculative self-presentation in Hegel.
#corroborates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 854 - Time’s fullness coincides with man raising himself to the trinitarian standpoint of God.
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 829