Habit is spirit’s mechanism for converting resistance into supple instruments.

Evidence

Habit is the process whereby the contingent becomes essential. Man can ‘present the genus’to the degree that habit is the unforeseen element of the genus. Habit, then, appears as the future of the undifferentiated genus. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601 (#expands, via linked claim)

What begins as the seemingly simple statement that the actor’s role is to be a mere instrument quickly evolves into a claim that the actor must organize and stabilize for herself a character in relation to which her performance can be crafted. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 370 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 428; Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 485; Man’s habit-forming power exemplifies spirit’s incarnation in time. (+5 more)

Related

• Man’s habit-forming power exemplifies spirit’s incarnation in time. (similarity 0.88)
• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. (similarity 0.87)
• Habit is the process whereby contingent determinations become essential (similarity 0.87)
• Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations (similarity 0.87)
• Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form (similarity 0.86)
• Habit’s simplification costs spirit a sacrificial alienation of itself. (similarity 0.85)
• Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. (similarity 0.85)
• Habit is the plastic operation rendering the body fully pervious (similarity 0.84)
• Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation (similarity 0.83)
• Habit enables the reversibility of psychic and physical attributes. (similarity 0.83)
• Habit produces the plastic character making man both universal and individual. (similarity 0.83)
• Habit is a genuine plasticity translating psychic and somatic into one another (similarity 0.83)
• Habit is the condensation of an organism’s environment into its constitution. (similarity 0.82)
• Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human (similarity 0.82)
• Habit etymologically converts having into a way of being (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601
• Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form #expands (0.82)
• The instrument metaphor secretly requires the actor to construct a stable self #complicates (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 370