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

Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1

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