deborahjeong The appearance of contingency in time-succession ... I doubt there are 10 people on this planet who understand Hegel, and I'm not one of them, so this is going to be a tough, uphill battle for you. An English grammar forum is not the place to learn how to interpret Hegel.
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deborahjeongThe appearance of contingency in time-succession ...
I doubt there are 10 people on this planet who understand Hegel, and I'm not one of them, so this is going to be a tough, uphill battle for you. An English grammar forum is not the place to learn how to interpret Hegel. Personally, I think the man was crazy — though he was once the darling o
Time-succession refers to a set of ordered events, each one following the other in time.
One of the oldest puzzles in philosophy, particularly in the context of Christian belief, has to do with free will (where "contingency" is inherent in a future sequence of human or natural events), and predestination, where there is none. Perhaps Hegel is deferring a discussion of this. It seems lik