Passive nous precedes individuation and man in Hegel’s anthropology

Evidence

The second reason can be deduced from the marginal position Hegel allots to νς in the presentation of the Anthropology. ‘Passive νς’, in fact, functions as the absolute beginning of the Anthropology’s development. As ‘substance or absolute basis of all the particularization and individualization of spirit’, it exists before any individuation and appears before the entrance of man: from this alone it is clear that man and the noetic soul are not co-extensive. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 396

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that nous exists before any individuation and before man’s entrance connects to the plasticity theme: the substrate precedes and conditions what is formed from it, echoing how neural plasticity presupposes a baseline neurological substrate. — connects to: Hegel’s anthropological, theological and philosophical material yields a philosophy of the event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 291

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s anthropological, theological and philosophical material yields a philosophy of the event #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 291