Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits
Evidence
The analysis of noetic plasticity and of the role that habit plays in it will allow us to shed new light on the question of the ‘the proper of man (le propre de l’homme)’ and of the limits, animal and divine, that reserve for him his place. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 317
Categorization
- XREF: Man defined by limits against animal and divine recalls Bataille and the proper of man debates; also connects to the reader’s brain work via habit as embodied plasticity. — connects to: Man defines himself as human by contrast with animal irrationality; Human habit conceals its own habitual character, whereas animal habit does not — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 551; Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 759 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257 - Habit elevates time to a second power enabling nature’s transition into spirit
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 485 - Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence
#expands(0.82) - Human habit conceals its own habitual character, whereas animal habit does not
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 551 - Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 759 - Plasticity is the mutual informing of universal and particular in the exemplary individual
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 237 - Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination.
#expands(0.73) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649 - Plastic individuality mediates between sculptural and philosophical plasticity.
#expands(0.72) - Freedom depends on theorizing the plasticity of transition
#expands(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 229