Concepts only become effective when incorporated into sensuous existence

Evidence

A philosophical education is a matter of overcoming this split and understanding that, for the speculative to be effective, the spiritual must be incorporated into a sensuous existence. Without this incorporation, logical life remains an abstraction. It is a requirement of the philosophical apprenticeship that logical categories be translated into the contingent determinations of ‘there-being (l’être-là)’, and vice versa. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 973

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the apprenticeship requirement: abstraction must be translated into contingent there-being — the dialectical incorporation that grounds plastic thought.
• XREF: This ‘requirement that logical categories be translated into contingent determinations’ parallels how plasticity as brain concept must be realized in material, contingent nervous structures. — connects to: Possibilities often reveal themselves only through the very act of realizing them — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 246; Concepts are tools for dominating nature, not for understanding it — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 52; The concept’s translation into the sensuous is systematic, not transcendentally deductible — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 275 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018
• The non-identical can only be approached through concepts without being subsumed #qualifies (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1242