Hegel read actual Greek statesmen and thinkers through sculptural plasticity
Evidence
Greece is not to be understood at its heart unless we bring with us as a key to our comprehension an insight into the ideals of sculpture and unless we consider from the point of view of their plasticity not only the heroic figures in epic and drama but also the actual statesmen and philosophers. After all, in the beautiful days of Greece, men of action, like poets and thinkers, had this same plastic and universal yet individual character both inwardly and outwardly (diesen plastischen, allgemeinen und doch individuellen, nach außen wie nach innen gleichen Charakter). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 231
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
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- Greek culture’s wholeness is only graspable through the ideal of sculpture (similarity 0.82)
- Hegel modeled plastic character on Aristotle forming Alexander’s genius (similarity 0.81)
- Hegel contrasted Athens’ plastic individuality with Sparta’s rigid abstract virtue (similarity 0.80)
- Plastiker extended to poets who sculpt with language and rhythm like sculptors. (similarity 0.79)
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- Plastic individuality mediates between sculptural and philosophical plasticity. (similarity 0.78)