Man exemplifies form-receiving because knowledge can become his hexis.

Evidence

Now it is ις which will provide the necessary definition, because it represents the specific case of an intentionally produced alteration. At the beginning of the passage it is clearly indicated how νθρωπς comes to characterize the neutral term, the π στηµν τι, by giving it a particular form. The human way of ‘possessing’ knowledge functions as a paradigmatic expression of the capacity of sense or intellect to receive form. Man is exemplary because of his own specific way of appropriating things. Because he is ‘capable of knowledge’, knowledge has the power to become for him a ις. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 442

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Hexis is an alteration that improves rather than corrupts the subject (similarity 0.82)
• Habit converts learned subjection into free action (similarity 0.81)
• Hexis fuses potential and act through supple familiarization, not wearing-down (similarity 0.79)
• Human plasticity gives the logical accident-becoming-essential process a sensuous face (similarity 0.78)
• Aristotle distinguishes alteration that fulfills a subject from alteration that corrupts it. (similarity 0.78)