Contemplation does not come before contraction but proceeds from it

Evidence

How are we to understand the precession of contemplation over contraction, as seems to be assumed by the phrase ‘through contemplation we contract’? Proceed must be substituted for precede, as the following assertion invites us to do: ‘We do not contemplate ourselves, but we exist only in contemplating – that is to say, in contracting that from which we come.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 515

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the correct reading of the relation between contemplation and contraction: not temporal priority but dialectical procession.
• XREF: connects to: Flight into contemplation masks a refusal to face worldly ambiguity; Physical structures can hold contemplative space open against distraction

Broader Connections

• Flight into contemplation masks a refusal to face worldly ambiguity #exemplifies (0.72)
• Physical structures can hold contemplative space open against distraction #corroborates (0.70)