Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming
Evidence
The Hegelian analysis of time is not aimed at the single ‘now’; nor does time appear in it as ‘that in which’ becoming has its place. Hegel clarifies this: ‘It is not in time that everything comes to be and passes away, rather time itself is the becoming.’ Derrida comments: ‘Hegel took multiple precautions of this type. By opposing them to all the metaphorical formulations that state the “fall” into time, … one could exhibit an entire Hegelian critique of intratemporality (Innerzeitigkeit).’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 257
Categorization
- DEFINE: Key dialectical definition: time is not the medium in which change happens but the becoming itself — overturning commonsense container-picture of time.
- DEEPTHINKING: The move from time-as-container to time-as-becoming itself is a paradigm-shifting inversion, central to the whole plasticity concept.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Becoming is possible only because being and its modes are heterogeneous — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 428; The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 445; Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 485 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions
#corroborates(0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808 - Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809