Hegel reads Aristotle’s unmoved mover as self-generating circular motion.

Evidence

We may be astonished that Hegel, translating ν0ργεια by Tätigkeit and assimilating activity to movement, misunderstands several Aristotelian texts, beginning with those which define movement as an ‘incomplete act’ (thus prohibiting any assimilation of the pure Act to movement in general), and also those in which Aristotle clarifies the divine act as an act of immobility ( ν0ργεια /κινησ ας). If Hegel considers himself authorized to posit the identity of the divine act and that of movement, it is because he interprets the immobility expressly attributed by Aristotle to the Prime Mover as ‘self-generating motion’ (Selbstbewegung) or circular motion (Kreisbewegung). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 418

Categorization

• DEFINE: The core plasticity-surge move: Hegel converts Aristotle’s immobile pure Act into Selbstbewegung — the self-moving that defines plasticity’s immanent, non-external causality.
• XREF: Self-generating motion prefigures the self-organizing, self-affecting dynamic that Malabou will carry into her account of the brain’s plasticity — activity as auto-affection rather than external impingement. — connects to: Hegel reads the Prime Mover as pure activity where potentiality and actuality are inseparable — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 469

Broader Connections

• Hegel reads the Prime Mover as pure activity where potentiality and actuality are inseparable #expands (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 469