Assimilation requires the thing eaten already to be disposed toward its own destruction.

Evidence

Paradoxically, the ‘sting’ of that ‘point’ can leave the living thing insensible. But, at another level, it is the point which makes it possible to follow the phenomenon until the very end, to bring it to completion at least in some sense, and that may well mean for it to die in becoming its concept. Moreover, the terms rigidity and point also evoke a ‘steep slope’ (l’abrupt), a ‘point’ in the logical sense reached when a decision is reversed, as when we say ‘from this point on …’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1028 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Perhaps, similarly, there is also some element in religion which is not religious; when this element comes to the surface, all concretized religious forms, in which there is true religion, may be destroyed. This is the inner dynamic of heresy and apostasy. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eating appropriates another being by destroying and assimilating it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1414; Administrative mass death requires a humanity already dead to itself. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 255; A thing must die in becoming its own concept — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1028 (+3 more)

Related

• A thing must die in becoming its own concept (similarity 0.87)
• Assimilation, even ingestion and digestion, governs God’s self-revelation for Hegel (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A thing must die in becoming its own concept #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1028
• A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms #exemplifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852
• Modern environmental assumptions may already have doomed the human species #exemplifies (0.72)
• Hyperreal civilization must recycle its own lost faculties and imaginary. #exemplifies (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 52