Habit understood as a general and permanent way of being extends beyond humanity

Evidence

When we undertake a detailed examination of habit and its functions, both as understood by Aristotle and his followers and as brilliantly rethought by Hegel, we will see that such an operation is not exclusive to man. According to its Greek definition, habit is a way of being which is general and permanent, or, to cite Ravaisson in his work On Habit, it is ‘a state of existing understood either as the ensemble of its parts or as a temporal succession’. Given these conditions, the notion of existence extends beyond any strictly anthropological rendering. To what beings other than man can it apply? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 493

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines habit (Ravaisson) as a state of existing, general and permanent — ontological rather than anthropological.
• XREF: connects to: Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence

Broader Connections

• Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence #corroborates (0.95)