Plastic development requires substance to contain its future actualizations virtually

Evidence

The process of substance’s auto-differentiation as Hegel conceives it can only be possible if there is admitted within it an element of virtuality: substance possesses in itself its future actualizations. The outcome (logical and chronological) of substance’s actualizations contains the principle of substance’s internal differentiation, the principle without which the concept of ‘spiritual development’would be unintelligible. Hegel imagines the existence of a noetic habit, or pure ις, inscribing within substance the very possibility of its history. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 477

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines virtuality as the precondition of substance’s auto-differentiation, the core of plasticity.
• XREF: Links directly to the reader’s brain-plasticity work — substance’s virtual possession of its actualizations parallels how neural structures contain developmental potential. — connects to: Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1268; Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; Plasticity names the union of universal substance with individual form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 583 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 68
• Plasticity names the union of universal substance with individual form #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 583
• Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268