God’s self-gaze is the model for all speculative self-presentation in Hegel.
Evidence
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
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines how the specular divide — the self-appearing that splits the subject from itself — grounds plasticity’s dialectical motion.
- XREF: Connects to Malabou’s overarching plasticity thesis and the brain’s self-representation as self-differentiation. — connects to: For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 815; For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 815; God’s self-gaze divides the divine self by perspectival distance — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 854 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815 - For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815 - God’s self-gaze divides the divine self by perspectival distance
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 854 - Hegel makes being-for-others a necessary condition of being-for-itself
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 686 - For Cusa, the all-seeing gaze itself constitutes God’s representation
#qualifies(0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 51