Even upright posture is a willed habit continually sustained by unconscious willing

Evidence

The form of habit applies to spirit in all its degrees and varieties. Of all these modifications, the most external is the determination of the individual in relation to space; this, which for man means an upright posture, is something which by his will he has made into a habit. Adopted directly, without thinking, his upright stance continues through the persistent involvement of his will. Man stands upright only because and in so far as he wants to stand, and only as long as he wills to do so without consciousness of this. Similarly, to take another case, the act of seeing, and others like it, are concrete habits which combine in a single act the multiple determinations of sensation, of consciousness, intuition, understanding, and so forth. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 549

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated work: this is Hegel grounding embodied habit as the mechanism by which spirit shapes even the body’s spatial form — prefigures how plasticity could connect to neuro/body work. — connects to: Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will; For Sartre the body is a willed instrument that consciousness commands — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 119; Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1022 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will #corroborates (0.95)
• For Sartre the body is a willed instrument that consciousness commands #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 119
• Everyday bodily actions resist full description yet come to us effortlessly #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 727
• The body is deliberately cultivated toward habits that bypass conscious choice #qualifies (0.78) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 964
• Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it #complicates (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1022