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The Time of the Idea: An Inquiry into Hegel’s Notion of Time

By speaking of „the time of the Idea“ we do not wish to suggest either that the logical Idea has a temporal or historical dimension or that natural time somehow concerns the logical development of the Idea. Rather, we refer to the absolute Idea’s temporalization of itself in passing from the Logic into nature and spirit. The purpose of this inquiry is namely to make explicit what it means for the Idea to become temporal. The thesis we defend here is that there is no irreducible gap between the temporal manifestation of the Idea and its eternal rational truth. On the contrary, the Idea’s temporal manifestation is the accomplishment of its absoluteness. The analysis will firstly deal with the passage between the Science of logic and the Philosophy of Nature, explaining the systematic function of nature and of space and time as its first determinations. We will then investigate the nature of time by following its deduction from space and by reconstructing the function of space and time in the determination of natural singularities. By understanding the truth of time as the determination of finitude, we will be able to understand natural time as the Idea’s mode of being as external existence. Time is the way, therefore, for the Idea to realize itself as truly absolute.