Hegelian time reduces every occurrence to an indication of what already passed

Evidence

Time for Hegel is understood as the past tense of spirit: spirit must pass over (übergehen) into time in order to fulfil its own identity with itself as absolute and eternal. That identity, in its turn, is itself a past but a past not yet temporally passed away. It is the timeless antiquity of ā€˜presence’, the ā€˜parousia’ of the absolute. From its standpoint, everything that occurs can be only the indication of what has already come to pass; everything still in the future is simply a potential return to itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 198

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships