The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being.

Evidence

To distinguish this structure from the future as it is ordinarily understood, we will name this structure ‘to see (what is) coming’ (le ‘voir venir’), obeying Hegel’s injunction to philosophize in one’s own idiom. ‘Voir venir’ in French means to wait, while, as is prudent, observing how events are developing. But it also suggests that other people’s intentions and plans must be probed and guessed at. It is an expression that can thus refer at one and the same time to the state of ‘being sure of what is coming’ (‘être sûr de ce qui vient’) and of ‘not knowing what is coming’ (‘ne pas savoir ce qui va venir’). It is on this account that the ‘voir venir’, ‘to see (what is) coming’, can represent that interplay, within Hegelian philosophy, of teleological necessity and surprise. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 450; The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved; Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250