Content’s determinateness is self-given, not externally attached, in Hegel

Evidence

For example: ‘the statue is made of bronze’. It is easy to see that bronze is no more being added or attached to the statue than the statue is being added to the bronze. Rather, the statue is defined on the basis of its bronze just as the bronze takes on a particular form in the statue. The two aspects mutually imply one another; they are essential to each other, they mutually impose themselves on each other (s’imposent … l’un à l’autre), and are not superimposed. They are a matter for sublation (relève), where ‘relever’ in French does not just mean ‘to be the concern of’, or ‘be under the jurisdiction of’, but also ‘to rise’, ’ to bring out the true relief’. Consequently, every proposition can be understood as a sublation in this sense, for within it appears the overhanging relief (surplomb) that completes it. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1171 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

How will Hegel understand this originary synthetic instance? He resolves the question by positing νς as a ‘differentiated unity’: ‘Therefore there is a self-differentiation within it (ein Verschiedenes von ihm in ihm) and at the same time, it is pure and unmixed (rein und unvermischt).’ For Hegel, there can be no doubt that the plasticity of νς, articulated in this act of its auto-differentiation, constitutes its very essence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 466 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: For Hegel the concrete is a totality integrating all abstract moments; Hegel’s universal self-consciousness is an empty, contentless formula.; Substance becomes subject by self-negating into its own content — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 240 (+7 more)

Related

• Hegelian predication expresses mutual implication rather than attachment of one thing to another (similarity 0.90)
• Hegel grounds plasticity in νς’s power to self-differentiate while remaining unmixed (similarity 0.87)
• Hegel’s universal self-consciousness is an empty, contentless formula. (similarity 0.85)
• Substance becomes subject by self-negating into its own content (similarity 0.84)
• For Hegel the concrete is a totality integrating all abstract moments (similarity 0.83)
• Substance can carry its own future interpretations as latent possibility (similarity 0.83)
• Substance contains its own future reinterpretations as virtual attributes. (similarity 0.82)
• For Hegel only what is limited and determined can be fully intelligible and shared. (similarity 0.81)
• Subjectivity needs a structure able to absorb alterity that the soul lacks initially (similarity 0.81)
• One epoch can superimpose upon another only because substance self-differentiates in time (similarity 0.81)
• Plasticity defines substance-subject as giver and recipient of own form (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel distinguishes the feeling soul from mere natural individuality. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegelian negativity is a preserving virtual mode distinct from the merely non-existent (similarity 0.80)
• Divine plasticity articulates through self-determination, sensuous translation, and representation. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegel displaces the cogito as origin by grounding it in a larger order (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hegelian predication expresses mutual implication rather than attachment of one thing to another #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1171
• Hegel grounds plasticity in νς’s power to self-differentiate while remaining unmixed #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 466