Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence

Evidence

Between animal habit and human habit, the real distinction lies in the way human habit has an innate tendency to conceal its identity as habit. Such a tendency springs from human habitus itself. In the case of the animal, influences from the outside world are immediately ‘intro-reflected’. With the human organism, on the other hand, such a reflection back onto the self is not an immediate action, body and soul not forming so instantaneously that ‘simple ideal unity’ which is required by self-feeling. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 551 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Man defines himself as human by contrast with animal irrationality; Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 317; Habit belongs to every organic being, not only humans. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 499 (+3 more)

Related

• Human habit conceals its own habitual character, whereas animal habit does not (similarity 0.92)
• Man defines himself as human by contrast with animal irrationality (similarity 0.92)
• Habit belongs to every organic being, not only humans. (similarity 0.86)
• For Hegel all nature is second nature, making habit non-anthropological (similarity 0.85)
• Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits (similarity 0.85)
• Habit generates continuity, selfhood, and foresight in animals (similarity 0.84)
• Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation (similarity 0.84)
• Habit is the organism’s lifelong effort to synthesize internal and external differences into unity. (similarity 0.82)
• Habit is the plastic operation rendering the body fully pervious (similarity 0.81)
• For Hegel, nature is always already second nature. (similarity 0.81)
• Habit produces the plastic character making man both universal and individual. (similarity 0.81)
• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. (similarity 0.81)
• Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations (similarity 0.81)
• Habit is the condensation of an organism’s environment into its constitution. (similarity 0.81)
• Habit is the process whereby contingent determinations become essential (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Human habit conceals its own habitual character, whereas animal habit does not #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 551