Grounding oneself makes necessary being illusory mediated being

Evidence

But such a reading is wrong. Necessary being is being which is causa sui, and for that reason, cannot be other than it is. As Hegel puts it: ‘Necessity is being, because it is – the unity of being with itself that has itself for ground.’ But he adds immediately: ‘But conversely, because it has a ground it is not being, it is an altogether illusory being (nur Schein), relation (Beziehung) or mediation.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1105

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that causa sui, exactly in grounding itself, becomes illusory being — ‘nur Schein’ — undercuts the standard reading of necessity. Worth tracing how this feeds into plasticity as self-donation rather than self-foundation.
• XREF: connects to: Passive existence is conceptually unthinkable; only self-caused being is conceivable — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 139