Hegel’s automatism is not a simple deterministic machine excluding free choice

Evidence

To invoke an automatism does not mean that we are falling into the common practice of attaching to the Hegelian System the image of a mechanism pure and simple: as if there is a machine, indeed a dialectical machine, in which everything finds its place without the slightest intervention of free choice. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1096

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegel’s Selbst (self) means self-motion, not self-mastery — automaton, autos, not autocracy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1085; Hegel’s necessity-contingency relation is not mechanical inversion. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1104