Critica năzuinței pentru atemporalitate în filosofia hegeliană
The critique of the longing for timelessness in Hegelian philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The present paper wishes to explain how Hegel's speculative logic described in the Science of Logic as the „exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind” does not annihilate another famous thesis of the German philosopher according to which „every one is a son of his time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts.” (in Philosophy of Right). The reason is the following: the essence of God is not outside of time, but it must be inasmuch in time as it is outside of it. Especially in his discussion regarding rational theology, Hegel shows how the justification of the fact that an eternal („logical”) essence might exist is purely a historical process and, therefore, we encounter a twist in our analysis – we do not need to understand temporality from the standing point of eternity, but we must investigate how the idea of eternity occurs in time and how it must be understood from the point of view of time itself. Moreover, I will try to show how the longing for timelessness, an all-too-human endeavor, is a source of the limitation of the categories and structures criticised by Hegel in his Logic and which are taken to be symptoms of natural consciousness. These categories are exactly the „naturality” and „common-sense” which block philosophical inquiry, inquiry which cannot ignore the fact that the results cannot be dissociated from the process that generated them and, consequently, can justify its position without needing an arbitrary presupposition.

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