Philosophy’s plastic activity moves through logic, nature, and spirit

Evidence

The third syllogism is the Idea of philosophy, which has selfknowing reason, the absolutely universal, for its middle term: a middle, which divides itself into spirit and nature, making the former its presupposition, as process of the Idea’s subjective activity, and the latter its universal extreme, as process of the objectively and implicitly existing Idea. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986 (#expands, via linked claim)

‘I think’ (spirit) and objectivity (nature). While for the moment we will defer a proper analysis of this syllogism, it marks the emergence of speculative philosophy itself. In the form of speculation, thought will renounce the rigidity of its position; it will reconcile the fixed terms of that division which it had not been able to overcome. Returning to itself after the ordeal of its judicative partition, the concept freely opens itself to nature and to natural existence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 989 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Philosophical plasticity names both the thinker’s attitude and philosophy’s own form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 233; Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 989; In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 986 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature #expands (0.88) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986
• Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 989
• Philosophy’s absolute form, though not intuitable, remains fundamentally sensible #expands (0.72)