Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations

Evidence

Through simplification, spirit reduces its own resistance, becomes more supple, flexible, malleable, hence converting itself into an instrument. Simplification produces spirit’s second nature, reducing the first nature into the form of logical determinations which, henceforth, are contractions of potential energy, hence possessions (εις). This engages a mechanism which familiarises spirit with its own development just, as it brings the individual into familiarity with its own spirit. This mechanism, constituted through the gathering together and reanimation of traces ‘long since absorbed’, is that of habit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1052

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines habit as the mechanism of second nature and familiarisation, already a core concept in Malabou’s plasticity reading of Hegel.
• XREF: Connects to the plasticity/formation thesis Malabou develops across the whole book, and to the reader’s running interest in habit as brain-instantiated structure. — connects to: Habit transforms natural into spiritual nature and grounds ethical life itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1358; Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 489; Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 428 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. #corroborates (0.88) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601
• Habit transforms natural into spiritual nature and grounds ethical life itself #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1358
• Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 485
• Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 489
• Habit-formed man is spirit embodied without need of external referents #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 585
• Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 428