A tradition fuses an accident becoming fate with a fate actualizing in its accidents

Evidence

In his continual concern to prove that philosophy can be nothing outside its own history, that philosophical truth is indistinguishable from the movement of its evolution, Hegel shows that a philosophical tradition refers to two things at once: to the movement through which a particular accident (for example, something that arises in its own place and time, like the birth of philosophy in Greece) becomes essential (i.e. it becomes fate), and to the way a destiny, standing for the essential, then actualizes itself in its accidents, i.e. in its epochs and stages. Whether one is prior to the other is not something that can be known. This is what Absolute Knowledge knows. Hegelian philosophy assumes as an absolute fact the emergence of the random in the very bosom of necessity and the fact that the random, the aleatory, becomes necessary. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines tradition via double movement: accidental origin becoming essential (birth of philosophy in Greece as fate) and the essential actualizing through its epochal accidents.
• DEEPTHINKING: A tradition defined by two temporally opposite movements that are mutually constitutive with no knowable priority — this resists one-sentence summary and repays long sitting.
• STORYSTEM: A tradition as the unanswerable oscillation between the contingent birth that became fate and the fate that keeps generating contingent epochs — could structure a lineage/legacy narrative in fiction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1115
• XREF: connects to: Human formative power gives substance a face by making accidents essential — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 603; An accident gaining separate existence is the negative’s power. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1101; An elaborately designed album can celebrate accident as the highest form of creation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1079 (+1 more)