Modern creatures live out an already-accomplished teleology whose future is simultaneously open and closed
Evidence
Once the resistance of the dialectic is properly felt, we can appreciate its capacity to enter into dialogue with whatever is other than itself, to welcome its posterity and to let itself be surprised by that. It is not only in the workings of philosophical debate that this resistance is detected. A certain condition of modernity also reveals it. Hegel puts into perspective two temporal modes: teleology, corresponding to the Greek form of ‘to see (what is) coming’, and alienation, corresponding to the modern form of ‘to see (what is) coming’. The arrangement of these two times determines the future of those creatures who no longer have time ahead of themselves, who live out a teleology which is shattered because already accomplished. Such a future is both beautiful and terrible. Beautiful because everything can still happen. Terrible, because everything has already happened. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1279
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
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- Hegel never reconciled the future’s chronological and logical-conceptual senses (similarity 0.81)
- Hegel’s alienation is a historically specific, modern-Christian concept, not an eternal one (similarity 0.80)
- A life spent deferring to circumstances abolishes the future’s real novelty (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel’s end of history allows events but denies new universal meaning. (similarity 0.80)
- Heidegger flattens dialectical time to prove it is flattened (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel treats youthful belief in an unfinished world as delusion corrected by aging (similarity 0.80)
- Hegel’s anthropological, theological and philosophical material yields a philosophy of the event (similarity 0.79)
- Prior interpreters declared Hegel’s two futures irreconcilably contradictory (similarity 0.79)
- The concept of the future itself has a history (similarity 0.79)
- Absolute Knowledge is metamorphosis that shapes individuals’ expectations of the future (similarity 0.79)
- The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future (similarity 0.79)
- Hegel is the origin of most 19th-20th century end-themed philosophy. (similarity 0.79)