Habit reconciles will and world until one wants what is
Evidence
Thus habit is revealed as a process through which man ends by willing or choosing what came to him from outside. Henceforth the will of the individual does not need to oppose the pressure of the external world; the will learns gradually to want what is. The ideal ceases to appear as something which ought to be, which ‘might be but is not yet’. To the degree that the objective merges with the movement towards it, the ideal is achieved. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 580
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- DEFINE: Defines habit’s dialectical role as collapsing the ought/is distinction — a key move in understanding plasticity, central to the reader’s stated goal.
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that freedom consists not in opposing the world but in coming to want what is — a genuine inversion of intuitive freedom, dense enough to sit with.
Related
- Habit converts imposed external constraint into self-chosen desire for what is (similarity 0.91)
- Habit collapses the gap between ideal aim and its actual realization (similarity 0.82)
- Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. (similarity 0.81)
- Habit alters a being’s internal potentiality, not merely its outward states. (similarity 0.80)
- Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior (similarity 0.79)
- Modern philosophy defines freedom as never becoming habituated to itself (similarity 0.79)
- Habit is the process whereby contingent determinations become essential (similarity 0.79)
- Habit is a genuine plasticity translating psychic and somatic into one another (similarity 0.78)