Limitation implies transcendence because the limiting being relates to what it excludes

Evidence

In order that the limit which is in something as such should be a limitation (Schranke), something must at the same time in its own self transcend the limit. It must in its own self be related to the limit as to something which is not. … Limitation establishes a relation between everything that falls within it and everything that is outside. What falls within the limitation is finite, but to the extent that the limitation is by definition other than itself, this constitutes at the same time ‘the transcendence (Hinausgehen) of the finite, infinity’. Limitation springs from the articulation of the same and the other, an articulation which representational thought is unable to understand as it really is, conceiving it only as a separation of two alien instances: the finite and the infinite, the sensible and the supersensible, time and eternity, and so on. Failing to understand that the negation of being is inherent in being as such, representational thinking conceives negation as something which comes upon being from somewhere else, as if it were something that happens, that is just found in front of oneself. It is in response to these considerations that Hegel, in the Science of Logic, connects his analysis of limitation to the analysis of the ‘ought-to-be’ (das Sollen). The ‘ought-tobe’ is a result of that operation of thinking which persists in dissociating the essential simultaneity of being and non-being, consigning them to a relation of succession: first being, then non-being, and so on unto infinity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 869

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Core distinction between Grenze and Schranke: a limit becomes a limitation only through the being’s self-transcending relation to what lies beyond it.
  • XREF: This is the definitional root of plasticity as self-relation to otherness; connects directly to the reader’s brain-work and to the dialectic of self-determination central to Hegel reading. — connects to: Transcendence means overshooting established discourse toward real historical possibilities. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 103; Being is necessarily defined against what it is not — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 183; Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not (+2 more)

Broader Connections