Спекулативната логика и времето: границата на тотализацията и структурната темпоралност при Хегел
Speculative Logic and Time: The Limit of Totalization and Structural Temporality in Hegel

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a philosophical analysis of the relationship between time, eternity, and the concept within the tradition established by Hegelian speculative logic. It defends the thesis that temporality, rather than functioning merely as an external condition of thought, constitutes an immanent limit of thinking itself—one that prevents conceptual totalization. The study proposes a non-eternal and non-totalizing logic of subjectivity, in which negativity, difference, and repetition operate not as deficiencies but as essential forms of thought understood in its development and non-completion. In Hegel’s speculative logic, the concept strives for self-coincidence in the Absolute, but counterintuitively – this very striving temporalizes it. Speculative thought does not culminate in an eternal totality but remains deferred within the self-differentiation of time. Such an understanding allows for the grounding of a “logic of subjectivity” based on incompleteness, where thought exists precisely in its impossibility of completion. By examining the dialectics of finite–infinite and necessary–contingent, as well as the principles of circularity and teleology in the Science of Logic, the article argues that the Absolute Idea does not constitute a static formal totalization but a dynamic self-consistency that can be conceived only as temporal self-movement. Speculative logic is therefore a logic of incompleteness and structural temporality. It is within temporal self-differentiation that the concept preserves its necessity. In this way, time appears not as a limit that thought must overcome, but as the very limit that makes speculative thinking possible.

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