The Christian God is the first figure that sees itself coming

Evidence

Although the Aesthetics seems at first glance to preclude the use of plasticity in characterizing the romantic ideal, its relevance is in fact decisively affirmed. Essential to the romantic ideal are those very elements that give the formula ‘to see (what is) coming’ its quasi-literal meaning: … The inner being (of the Greek gods) does not look out of them as self-knowing inwardness in this spiritual concentration which the eye discloses. This light of the soul falls outside them and belongs to the spectator alone; when he looks at these shapes, soul cannot meet soul nor eye. But the God of romantic art appears seeing, self-knowing, inwardly subjective, and disclosing his inner being to man’s inner being. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 852

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Christian God is the primal speculative instance because he reflects on himself.; Christianity makes divine self-vision a single decisive moment.