The supersumption of being in unity, plurality and continuity

pure quantity

Abstract

The category of Quantity in Hegel is developed in such a way as to help characterize what is understood by being. Beyond the liquidity, closure and inflexibility typical of an understanding limited to a univocal and finalist exclusivity, being presents itself through new unfoldings that give it openness. Flexibility, which thus characterizes being, has, in breaking the rigidity of univocity, in interrupting immediatist exclusivism and in preventing finalist discontinuity, the status of being for itself superseded as Quantity. As uni, pluri and continuous, it is a quantity that describes the unities beyond a mere superficial representation. To what extent is it possible to conceive of being, by going beyond the mere faculty of understanding substance in the understanding, as a unified, plural and continuous Quantity?