Human formative power gives substance a face by making accidents essential
Evidence
Man is exemplary because the human formative power can translate the logical process into a sensuous form. In this case, the logical process is the path by which the accident becomes essential. If this possibility did not exist, there would be no way to understand the movement of the substancesubject, the dialectical identity of subject and predicate. Hegelian man owes his ‘proper’ essence (but is it still a matter of the ‘proper’, of authentic human properties?) to the way he appropriates this non-human development. Through the forms of human plasticity, substance informed by its modifications (substance accidentée) gains something else: a face. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 603
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘face’ that substance gains through human plasticity ties to the whole plasticity-as-subject theme; connects to the reader’s aim of grounding plasticity in Hegel for brain-science applications. — connects to: Human plasticity gives the logical accident-becoming-essential process a sensuous face; Philosophy reveals how accidents become essential and essence becomes accidental; Repetitive practice converts contingent accident into essential form for plastic individuals — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 597 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Human plasticity gives the logical accident-becoming-essential process a sensuous face
#exemplifies(0.92) - Plasticity’s mechanism is the substance-subject seesaw between essence and accident
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1256 - Philosophy reveals how accidents become essential and essence becomes accidental
#expands(0.78) - Repetitive practice converts contingent accident into essential form for plastic individuals
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 597 - An accident gaining separate existence is the negative’s power.
#complicates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1101 - A tradition fuses an accident becoming fate with a fate actualizing in its accidents
#expands(0.73) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1115