Language marks the transition from animal to human for Hegel.
Evidence
There is one immediate and obvious response to that last question: it is language that could act as the cutting edge between the death of the animal and the birth of man. For what else but the power of speech could enable man to āpresent perfectly the genusā? ā¦ āSeen from the animal world, the human ļ¬gure is the supreme phase in which spirit makes an appearance. But, for spirit, it is only its ļ¬rst appearance, while language is straightaway its perfect expression (sein vollkommener Ausdruck).ā ā Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 543
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- QUESTION: Credibility check ā is the Hegel quote complete and faithful? Also whether term āgenusā here aligns with the animal-reproduction āgenusā concept of ch 67.
Related
- Human language expresses spirit only through dialectical work, not direct emanation (similarity 0.87)
- Language is spiritās perfect expression while the human figure is only its first appearance (similarity 0.85)
- Hegelās human expression is a dialectically liberated economy of signification, not a direct emanation. (similarity 0.83)