Greek circular time is the precondition for dialectical sublation of temporality
Evidence
The dialectical sublation of temporality in Absolute Knowledge would not have been possible without the teleological and circular Greek time in which one can identify the end and the beginning. Conclusion, the leave: ‘This is a time which can dismiss that other time, the one which does not lie ahead. At the very moment where we believed time had been dismissed, the two times meet and unite.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 166
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Two incommensurable temporalities — teleological and circular — converge because one can be ‘dismissed’ by the other; this is a dense, counterintuitive account of how time is plastic rather than linear.
- XREF: connects to: Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 515; Plasticity enables authentic temporality’s characteristics to be conceived — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1274; Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity, not Heidegger’s account, best captures Hegelian temporality
#corroborates(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 2 - Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254 - Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses
#expands(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809 - Plasticity enables authentic temporality’s characteristics to be conceived
#corroborates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1274