Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself

Evidence

If time is ‘the being which, in being, is not and in non-being, is’, then this also means, rigorously put: ‘Time itself is not what it is.’ Time is not always (simultaneously, successively, and permanently) the same as itself. The concept of time has its own moments: it differentiates itself and thus temporalizes itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the core Hegelian consequence that time’s self-difference is what makes it temporal — time is not self-identical.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that time’s non-self-identity is precisely what constitutes temporality — a dense dialectical insight resisting one-sentence summary.
• XREF: connects to: Time divides analytically into a static before-after order and a dynamic flowing course.; Temporal unity cannot be rebuilt from atemporal substances; Temporality exists only as the intra-structure of the For-itself, which temporalizes itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 471 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming #expands (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 257
• Time is plastic because it differentiates itself both synchronically and diachronically #expands (0.90)