Immediate indeterminacy must divest itself by necessity rather than love.

Evidence

Dialectically sublating the ‘time form’, spirit cancels all tendency to question whether a wholly different origin might have been possible, whether there could have been a wholly different destination from the one that actually came to pass. At the stage of Absolute Knowledge, the time which is sublated – that empty time posted outside itself by consciousness, giving the unfolding of spirit the appearance of a ‘free contingent event’ – leaves us always time to think what might otherwise have been. In this fact, Hegel believes, there remains the possibility of alienation which, in principle, depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The possibility of alienation depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1116

Broader Connections