For Hegel, nature is always already second nature.

Evidence

When Hegel reopens the analyses of De Anima does this entail an anthropological conception of habit? The Philosophy of Nature, with its concentration on the notion of ‘organic life’, immediately invalidates such a conclusion. The account developed here shows that, for Hegel, nature is always second nature. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 492

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that ‘second nature’ is not man’s artifact but a characteristic of nature as such — central to how habit connects to organic life.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s brain-plasticity project: if nature is always second nature, then plasticity is not an exclusively human neurological endowment. — connects to: Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 573; For Hegel all nature is second nature, making habit non-anthropological — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 492
• QUESTION: If all organic beings are habituated, what exactly distinguishes human spiritual nature from animal second nature? The chapter seems to defer this.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source