Modern individuals receive abstract universality ready-made rather than forging it from concrete life

Evidence

The manner of study in ancient times differed from that of the modern age in that the former was the proper and complete formation (Durchbildung) of the natural consciousness. Putting itself to the test at every point of its determinate being, and philosophizing about everything it came across, the individual made itself into a universality that was active through and through. In modern times, however, the individual finds the abstract form ready-made (vorbereitet); the effort to grasp and appropriate it is more … the truncated (abgeschnitetne) generation of the universal than it is the emergence of the latter from the concrete variety of determinate being. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1016

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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