Exemplary individuals so embody the genus they become indistinguishable from gods

Evidence

If there is anything that still remains of the accidental in such exemplary individuals and their particular shape, it has acquired such a formative power that it is impossible to know, or say, of Thucydides, Phidias, Plato and others cited by Hegel, whether they are men or gods. They have become ‘ideal artists shaping themselves, individuals of a single cast, works of art standing there like immortal and deathless images of the gods in which there is nothing temporal and doomed’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 588

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘plastic individual’ as one whose self-formation effaces the boundary between human and divine.
• XREF: connects to: Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174; Renaissance culture paired perfected individuality with transcendence of local milieus. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 661; Thought individuates itself the way a genus does, through self-embodiment — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 967 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Renaissance culture paired perfected individuality with transcendence of local milieus. #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 661
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type #complicates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174