Rethinking history and potentiality: Across Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger

Abstract

I attempt to derive a theory of history and potentiality in the work of Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger, laying out the mutual critiques of each in order to determine what might be required in a possible reformulation. I then attempt to provide one potential “reconstruction” which accounts for central desiderata in each of the three theories and which, I argue, provides a beginning framework for an account compatible with core modernist and postmodernist views in the philosophy of history.