Representational thinking turns being and non-being from simultaneity into mere succession

Evidence

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, 870

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Limitation implies transcendence because the limiting being relates to what it excludes (similarity 0.84)
• Representational thought fragments the notion into separate successive events (similarity 0.82)
• Hegelian time reduces every occurrence to an indication of what already passed (similarity 0.79)