Temporality and the future of philosophy in Hegel's phenomenology / John Russon
Series: International Philosophical Quarterly. 48 : 1, pages 59-68 Publication details: March 2008Content type:- text
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In "Sense-Certainty" Hegel establishes "the now that is many nows" as the form of experience. This has implications for the interpretation of later figures within the Phenomenology of Spirit: specifically, the thing (from chapter 2), the living body (from chapter 4), and the ethical community (from chapter 6) are each significantly different forms of such a "now" in which the way that past and future are held within the present differs. Comparing these changing "temporalities" allows us to defend Hegel's distinction between nature and spirit, and his claim that only spirit has a history. This comparison also allows us to see how it is that phenomenological philosophy, and the "end of history" that it announces, is a stance of openness to the future.
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