In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature
Evidence
The third syllogism is the Idea of philosophy, which has selfknowing reason, the absolutely universal, for its middle term: a middle, which divides itself into spirit and nature, making the former its presupposition, as process of the Idea’s subjective activity, and the latter its universal extreme, as process of the objectively and implicitly existing Idea. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986
Categorization
- DEFINE: Specifies the structure of the third syllogism; the middle term doesn’t sit between spirit and nature but actively divides itself into them — plasticity as self-partitioning.
- XREF: connects to: Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 281; The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 700; Philosophy’s plastic activity moves through logic, nature, and spirit (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770 - Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 318 - Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions
#expands(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167