Habit transforms natural into spiritual nature and grounds ethical life itself

Evidence

Education (Pädagogik) is the art of making human beings ethical: it considers them as natural beings and shows them how they can be reborn, and how their original nature can be transformed into a second, spiritual nature so that this spirituality becomes habitual to them … In habit, the opposition between the natural and the subjective will disappears, and the resistance of the subject is broken; to this extent, habit is part of ethical life, just as it is part of philosophical thought, since the latter requires that spirit should be trained to resist arbitrary ideas and that these ideas should be destroyed and overcome to clear the way for rational thought. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1358

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines habit as the mechanism that converts original into ‘second nature’, erasing natural-vs-subjective will opposition.
• XREF: Connects to the plasticity theme: habit as formative second nature echoes plasticity discussed throughout; also resonates with the reader’s brain-work interest since habit formation is literally neural. — connects to: Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1052; Through habit the soul regains a nature it natively lacks. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 572; Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 485 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 485
• Habit makes the soul regain a second nature #corroborates (0.80)
• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601
• Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257
• Ethical habituation aims to make conscious choice redundant yet still requires vigilant self-monitoring #expands (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 964