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Bad infinity (alternation with finite)
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- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 111 Determinateness (Quality)
- 112 Magnitude (Quantity)
- 113 Measure (qualitative Quantity)
- 1111 Indeterminate Being
- 1112 Being-there, determinate Being ('Dasein')
- 1113 Being for oneself/Being for itself (Für-sich-sein)
- 11121 [Being-there / determinate Being] as such
- 11122 Finitude
- 11123 Infinity
- 111231 The Infinite in general
- 111232 Bad infinity (alternation with finite)
- 111233 True infinity
Bad Infinity
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The merely negative infinity of "always further." The infinite progression (1, 2, 3...), which never reaches completion and always stands external to finitude. It is "bad" because it does not sublate finitude but only continues it.
Origin: Spinoza (critique of the "imaginatio"). Hegel (distinction between true and bad infinity).
In Hegel: Enz. §94; SL Vol. 1, Doctrine of Being, Quality
Cross-references: Chap. 1.9