Man’s habit-forming power exemplifies spirit’s incarnation in time.

Evidence

‘Plastic’ individuality elevates itself – an ascending movement – to its own relief and acquires the constancy of essence. Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human, and the human in the divine, an incarnation which Greek sculpture presents to the senses. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257 (#expands, via linked claim)

Habit is the process whereby the contingent becomes essential. Man can ‘present the genus’to the degree that habit is the unforeseen element of the genus. Habit, then, appears as the future of the undifferentiated genus. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601 (#expands, via linked claim)

At this point we might recall Aristotle’s example of the human aptitude for contracting an ις as his central instance of an alteration which does not corrupt. Now, in Hegel, the close relation between human being and habit helps to explain the specifically spiritual process of giving and receiving form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 428 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 485; Past moments of spirit form a habitus that dialectic reactualizes.; Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1257 (+11 more)

Related

• Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation (similarity 0.93)
• Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human (similarity 0.90)
• Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations (similarity 0.90)
• Habit-formed man is spirit embodied without need of external referents (similarity 0.89)
• Habit produces the plastic character making man both universal and individual. (similarity 0.88)
• Habit is the plastic operation rendering the body fully pervious (similarity 0.88)
• Habit is spirit’s mechanism for converting resistance into supple instruments. (similarity 0.88)
• Habit is a genuine plasticity translating psychic and somatic into one another (similarity 0.87)
• Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit (similarity 0.87)
• Habit is the process whereby contingent determinations become essential (similarity 0.87)
• Spirit’s past moments form a habitus always ready to be reactualized (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits (similarity 0.86)
• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. (similarity 0.86)
• Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. (similarity 0.85)
• Habit enables the reversibility of psychic and physical attributes. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257
• Habit transforms contingent acts into essential determinations of being. #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 601
• Habit, following Aristotle, is an alteration that does not corrupt but forms spirit. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 428
• Past moments of spirit form a habitus that dialectic reactualizes. #expands (0.78)
• Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 281
• Habit is spirit’s mechanism for converting resistance into supple instruments. #complicates (0.72)
• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man #qualifies (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770