Abstract

SEREY AGUILERA, Juan. HISTORICAL TIME AND THE ABSOLUTE PRESENT IN THE INTRODUCTION TO GEORG W. F. HEGEL'S LESSONS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF WORLD HISTORY. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2021, vol.70, n.176, pp.11-32.  Epub July 06, 2021. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvaiores.v70n176.74387.

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that Hegel in his Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of World History proposes a new way of thinking historical time thanks to a notion of eternity understood as the negative reunion of the moments of time by questioning the idea of progress and introducing the notion of absolute pre-sent. This notion makes possible comprehending the historical present in its openness and fragility finding its logical roots in the conflict of the Absolute Idea with itself.

Keywords : eternity; finitude; history; present; time.

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