Greek plastic individuals were self-made from substantial personality

Evidence

‘Pericles …, Phidias, Plato, and above all Sophocles, as well as Thucydides, Xenophon, Socrates’, are ‘plastic individuals’: ‘They are great and free, grown independently on the soil of their own inherently substantial personality, self-made, and developing into what they (essentially) were and wanted to be.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 229

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘plastic individuality’: figures whose self-formation springs from their own substantial ground — a formation that is also a self-production.
• XREF: The self-made-yet-substantial Greek figure models the fusion of passive ground and active self-shaping that bears on the enmity plasticity question. — connects to: Hegel’s plastic individuals are living self-sculpted works of art — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1308