ORIGINAL STRUCTURE IN SEVERINO AND MEDIATION IN HEGEL: A REFLECTION ON THE CONCEPT OF RELATIONSHIP

For Hegel, the commencement, which is immediate, needs also to be understood as a mediation, i.e. as something which cannot but unravel itself. Severino agrees on this proposition, but he also posits the commencement as the ultimate foundation: something furnished with a structure that would consist with a mono-dyadic-construct relationship that enables us to identify the foundation and then derivate from it the system of all determinations. For Hegel, though, relationship is not only a construct: an extrinsic relationship; but also an intrinsic relationship: the act that pushes all determinations beyond themselves. Inevitably, since it proceeds from a starting point, the system of determinations is posited; undeniably, though, it is indeed transcended. The unity of the system of determinations must not be confused with the unity of its foundation. The latter only is the reason for ablatio alteritatis, where duality upon which relationship is based is transcended.