The future is understood both as coming time and as lasting posterity
Evidence
The possibility that one temporal determination, the future, can be thought differently, beyond its initial, simple status as a moment of time, from ‘that which is now to come’, makes it immediately clear that time for Hegel cannot be reduced to an ordered relation between moments. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210 (
#expands, via linked claim)
The only way Augustine can find to avoid these contradictions is to say that past and future can only be thought of as present: ‘past’ must be identified with memory, and ‘future’ with expectation, memory and expectation being both present facts. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Their advanced symbolizing capacity enabled humans to transcend the dictates of their immediate environment and made them unique in their power to shape their environment and life courses. Through cognitive self-regulation, humans can visualize futures that act as present guides and motivators for purposeful behavior; order preferences rooted in personal values; construct, evaluate, and modify alternative courses of action to secure valued outcomes; and override environmental influences if necessary. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 154 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The future, time, and history each have their own history and a shared question.; Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 210; Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 154 (+2 more)
Related
- Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments (similarity 0.89)
- Future carries a double sense of both what comes and what deserves to last (similarity 0.85)
- Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation (similarity 0.85)
- Hegel never reconciled the future’s chronological and logical-conceptual senses (similarity 0.85)
- Time’s meaning must be opened out because the future exceeds any single moment. (similarity 0.85)
- For Heidegger authentic future is time itself, not a moment of it (similarity 0.84)
- The future, time, and history each have their own history and a shared question. (similarity 0.84)
- The future arises only from reanimating the familiar and habitual (similarity 0.84)
- Hegel remains a thinker of the future against current philosophical suspicion (similarity 0.84)
- Hegel’s thought allegedly renounced all future by thinking time itself. (similarity 0.84)
- Positing the future as plasticity displaces the future’s definition as a moment of time (similarity 0.84)
- Prior interpreters declared Hegel’s two futures irreconcilably contradictory (similarity 0.83)
- The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future (similarity 0.83)
- The concept of the future itself has a history (similarity 0.83)
- Hegel’s temporal movement spans both logical structure and historical unfolding (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210 - Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation
#corroborates(0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391 - Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking
#expands(0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 154