Animal organization reconstructs inert physical elements into a single conditioned individual
Evidence
If the plant world already knows the synthesis of inorganic substances, the animal world takes this even further, contracting all that comes before it. In the Philosophy of Nature of 1805ā6, Hegel writes that āthe organization, in general, of the animal represents the physical elements reconstructed in one single individualā. Such a reconstruction turns the organism into a habitus, meaning that it is provided with an internal disposition at the organic level. Following Cuvier, Hegel deļ¬nes the animal habitus as āthe connection (Zusammenhang) which determines how all the parts are constructedā. ā Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 509
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Cuvierās animal habitus is defined as the connection (Zusammenhang) determining how parts are constructed ā a structural, pre-psychological sense of habit.
- XREF: Recalls the readerās questions on plasticity/agency: habitis here purely structural/physiological, with no room for the willāuseful contrast for where plastic receptivity becomes explosive agency.
Related
- Habit is the condensation of an organismās environment into its constitution. (similarity 0.82)
- Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence (similarity 0.79)
- For Hegel all nature is second nature, making habit non-anthropological (similarity 0.78)