An event requires both teleological necessity and aleatory accident to occur

Evidence

The paradox or formal aporia here raised is revealed by the dialectical plasticity or the selfcontradiction in the expression ‘to see (what is) coming’. Towards the end of the book, this feature will become more and more apparent, especially in the discussion of Hegel’s profound repetition of the Aristotelian notion of automatos or automatismos, the self-being of that which necessarily moves in and of itself (aus sich selbst), but also, at the same time, the self-being of what happens in and of itself by chance or by accident. Without both, without the conjunction of the essential or teleological necessity and, at the same time, of the aleatory accident, of the ‘may-be’ inherent in contingence, no event would or could ever come forth or happen. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 54

Towards the end of the book, this feature will become more and more apparent, especially in the discussion of Hegel’s profound repetition of the Aristotelian notion of automatos or automatismos, the self-being of that which necessarily moves in and of itself (aus sich selbst), but also, at the same time, the self-being of what happens in and of itself by chance or by accident. Without both, without the conjunction of the essential or teleological necessity and, at the same time, of the aleatory accident, of the ‘may-be’ inherent in contingence, no event would or could ever come forth or happen. This is where we must return, to this ‘may-be’ or to this ‘perhaps’, for it is without doubt the most difficult and most audacious thesis of this book. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 54

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core plasticity paradox: automatos as both self-necessity and self-chance, the conjunction required for any event to happen.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s brain work — surprise and necessity co-constituting emergence maps onto how novel neural structures arise from both determined processes and contingency. — connects to: An event becomes a symptom only when external accident translates into lived experience — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1815; Neurology offers a novel concept of the event free of accident and damage — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4309; The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 250 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The automatos/automatismos move — self-movement that is simultaneously necessity and chance — is singled out by Derrida as the book’s most audacious thesis, warranting top-tier treatment.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 54
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source

Broader Connections

• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250
• Contingent events are non-random yet depend on aberrant chance conditions #expands (0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4266