Habit mediates potential and actuality by guiding things to what they can achieve
Evidence
2Εις adapts δ.ναµις and ν0ργεια to each other, just as the garment gets used to (se faire à) the wearer. This form of ‘getting used to’ is not use in the literal sense (there is no integral state which is worn down by this ‘use’), but means a kind of familiarization, a becoming-supple and flexible. 2Εις guides something through its own power to what it can achieve. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1333
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: This defines hexis as the adaptable mediation between dunamis and energeia — a becoming-supple rather than a wearing-down.
Related
- Hexis fuses potential and act through supple familiarization, not wearing-down (similarity 0.86)
- Habit collapses the gap between ideal aim and its actual realization (similarity 0.79)
- Habit converts learned subjection into free action (similarity 0.79)