Man is both plant and animal, joining vegetative and sensitive nature
Evidence
In man we see vegetative nature as developed as sensitive nature: – this is an idea expressed clearly when the modern Philosophy of Nature claims that man is both plant and animal, and this is directed against the sharp separation between these forms. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1324
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
Related
- For Hegel all nature is second nature, making habit non-anthropological (similarity 0.79)
- Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike (similarity 0.79)
- Man defines himself as human by contrast with animal irrationality (similarity 0.79)
- Humans unite vegetative and sensitive natures, not merely append one to the other (similarity 0.79)