Hegel reads the Prime Mover as pure activity where potentiality and actuality are inseparable

Evidence

God is pure activity (reine Tätigkeit)… . [He is] the substance which in its potentiality also has its actuality, the substance whose essence (potentia) is itself activity and in which the two are not separable; in it, possibility cannot be distinguished from form (Form), and it is that which itself produces (produziert) its own content, its own determinations. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 469

Categorization

• XREF: The collapse of potentia into actus here is the theological seed of plasticity as the coincidence of form and formation — resonates with her notion of plastic brain as neither wholly potential nor actual. — connects to: Hegel reads Aristotle’s unmoved mover as self-generating circular motion. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 418; Hegel’s engagement with Aristotle’s De Anima centers on the active intellect