Habit is the precondition for knowing one’s own finitude

Evidence

This essential fluidity of our boundaries further implies that we also know our boundaries as such—first the individual and then in general. For only whoever stands outside his boundary in some sense knows that he stands within it, that is, knows it as a boundary. Kaspar Hauser did not know that he was in prison until he came into the open and could see the walls from without. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habitual suffering enables interpretive skill and invention beyond immediate need — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 532; Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787; Habit is what lets the subject know its own finitude and so be sane — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 611

Related

• Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them (similarity 0.82)
• Habit is what lets the subject know its own finitude and so be sane (similarity 0.81)
• One can only recognize a boundary by stepping outside of it (similarity 0.80)
• The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787