《Concept and Time in Hegel》.pdf

Dialogue /DIA Additional services for Dialogue: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Concept and Time in Hegel John Burbidge Dialogue / Volume 12 / Issue 03 / September 1973, pp 403 ­ 422 DOI: 10.1017/S0012217300036787, Published online: 09 June 2010 Link to this article: / abstract_S0012217300036787 How to cite this article: John Burbidge (1973). Concept and Time in Hegel. Dialogue, 12, pp  403­422 doi:10.1017/S0012217300036787 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from /DIA, IP address: 3 on 02 Oct 2012 CONCEPT AND TIME IN HEGEL O formulate a philosophy of time is not easy, even though T it would seem to be the basic requirement for any philo- sophy which attempts to comprehend the world of nature or of history. The problem is briefly posed : Can the conceptual frame- work of philosophical thought do justice to the dynamic character of time ? The purpose of this paper is not to provide a definitive answer to this question. Its aim is more limited . By discussing carefully the way in which Hegels philosophy related conceptual thought to time, it hopes to provide new perspectives on this vexing philo- sophical problem . Alexandr e Kojeve s thesis in Introduction to the Reading of Hegel provides a good place to begin. He claims that Hegel identifies Time and Concept. 1 To justify this he refers to a statement made in Chapter VII I of the Phenomenology, where Hegel writes : Time 2 is the Concept itself, which exists. But when we check the passage, such a simple identification of concept and time is not o