Contraction constitutes the primary organic habits that we are

Evidence

Auto-differentiation assumes a measurable length of time between the living being’s originary principle and its ultimate end, an ‘action lying in the middle between its first and last stage’. The organic being is characterized by its effort in maintaining its own unity through the synthesis of differences: the difference between the organism and its environment and the difference between the heterogeneous elements which make up the organism. Such an effort is nothing less than habit itself: from the beginning to the end of the organism’s life, habit is busy applying its power from the inside, fulfilling the individual development of the organism’s faculties. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 500 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Habit is the organism’s lifelong effort to synthesize internal and external differences into unity. (similarity 0.86)
• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences (similarity 0.84)
• Habit belongs to every organic being, not only humans. (similarity 0.83)
• Habit is the condensation of an organism’s environment into its constitution. (similarity 0.81)
• Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior (similarity 0.79)
• Every organic cell contracts habits, making contemplation a primordial bodily function (similarity 0.79)
• Habit’s relation to what one has resists infinite regress of having (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 500
• Established organic forces consistently absorb spontaneous mass movements #expands (0.75)