Hegel’s universal self-consciousness is an empty, contentless formula.
Evidence
The content shows that its determinateness (Bestimmtheit) is not received from something else, nor externally attached to it (aufgeheftet), but that it determines itself, and ranges itself as a moment having its own place in the whole (rangiert sich aus sich zum Momente und zu einer Stelle des Ganzen). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1086 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
Related
- Content’s determinateness self-ranges into place rather than being externally attached (similarity 0.88)
- Content’s determinateness is self-given, not externally attached, in Hegel (similarity 0.86)
- For Hegel only what is limited and determined can be fully intelligible and shared. (similarity 0.85)
- For Hegel the concrete is a totality integrating all abstract moments (similarity 0.84)
- The concept is an active self-moving process, not a passive substrate (similarity 0.82)
- Hegel’s ontology of consciousness remains framed entirely in terms of knowledge. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegelian negativity is a preserving virtual mode distinct from the merely non-existent (similarity 0.80)
- Hegelian negativity belongs to the Greek modality of the non-existent-that-might-be (similarity 0.80)
- For Hegel time itself becomes rather than merely containing becoming. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel holds pure being and pure nothingness to be the same (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel’s reason is both a priori and a posteriori in absolute unity (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel’s Self is a primordial synthetic instance prior to the I-self (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel grounds plasticity in νς’s power to self-differentiate while remaining unmixed (similarity 0.79)
- Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (similarity 0.79)
- The singular is self-identical determinateness posited as whole, or self-identical negativity (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Content’s determinateness is self-given, not externally attached, in Hegel
#corroborates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1086