Humans unite vegetative and sensitive natures, not merely append one to the other

Evidence

The selkie is not transformed FROM something into something better (like the frog into a princess); she is a being of TWO natures — woman and seal, land and sea — who can never be wholly one thing, who belongs to two worlds and is fully at home in neither, and who carries always within her a longing for her other, truer self. Hers is the transformation that is never completed, the dual nature that cannot be resolved, the heart that loves here but belongs there. — , A Year of World Stories, 15751 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

The youthful Marx expressed the unending entwinement of the two elements with an extremist vigor bound to irritate dogmatic materialists: ‘We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be considered from two sides, divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. Yet there is no separating the two sides; as long as men exist, natural and human history will qualify each other.’ The traditional antithesis of nature and history is both true and false – true insofar as it expresses what happened to the natural element; false insofar as, by means of conceptual reconstruction, it apologetically repeats the concealment of history’s natural growth. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1339 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Temporal succession is a uniting division, not sheer separation; Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature; Some beings hold an unresolved dual nature that can never become one thing — , A Year of World Stories, 15751 (+3 more)

Related

• Nature and history are inseparable and mutually qualifying (similarity 0.86)
• Human history is inseparable from the history of nature, so dialectics cannot exclude nature (similarity 0.84)
• Some beings hold an unresolved dual nature that can never become one thing (similarity 0.80)
• Temporal succession is a uniting division, not sheer separation (similarity 0.78)
• Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.75)
• Some beings hold an unresolved dual nature that can never become one thing #qualifies (0.72) — , A Year of World Stories, 15751
• Nature and history are inseparable and mutually qualifying #expands (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1339