actuality

is another way of saying 'the present order' which is inaugurated by an event, an event that repeats that which came before.

According to Foucault, actuality, or the present order, is inaugurated by an event, an event that repeats that which comes before. The event is that which sets us to work as subjects, which marks the transition from potentiality to actuality. The repetition, however, is never complete. In the transition from potentiality to actuality the subject comes into being by bringing together that which comes before, in terms of knowledge and experience, as it relates to others, as well as to the material. The conditions of possibility for the emergence of the subject are therefore always multiple and incomplete in every governing moment. (Studying the Agency of Being Governed By Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg, Maria Stern p.30)

is concerned with teleological necessity. The contingent and irrational are not actual, they are, rather, appearance.

Fully-developed, matured. Actuality thus incorporates a reference to (teleological) necessity... for Hegel the contingent and irrational are not actual (they are, rather, appearance). In the case of spirit or truth, actual means 'for-itself', explicit.

is either a dormant actuality, or an unthematized zone of emergence out of which a second kind of actuality... namely that of perceived objects and relations (I.E focal actuality) can spring.

Kant's two senses of actuality were recovered in the twentieth century by Husserl, who distinguished between dormant and focal actualities: dormant actualities are perceived as present in the field of intuition, but are not 'singled out'... they form a zone for the emergence of focal actualities (Husserl, 1913, 1057). In terms of his later thought, they form a life world, actual but unthematized, out of which may be drawn focal objects and relations. (Kant dictionary (caygill) : 52-3)

is nothing other than possibility when approached from the domain of knowledge.

All knowledge about actuality is possibility. The only actuality concerning which an existing person has more than knowledge about is his own actuality, that he exists, and this actuality is his absolute interest.

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