Plasticity means mobility of character, not rigidity or abstract virtue

Evidence

Meanwhile, plasticity directly contradicts rigidity. It is its exact antonym. In ordinary speech, it designates suppleness, a faculty for adaptation, the ability to evolve. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 290; Plasticity is the exact antonym of rigidity, not its complement — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39; For Hegel plasticity means mobility and freedom, opposed to rigid virtue — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1305

Related

• Plasticity is the exact antonym of rigidity, not its complement (similarity 0.96)
• Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity (similarity 0.86)
• For Hegel plasticity means mobility and freedom, opposed to rigid virtue (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity is not the same as polymorphous flexibility (similarity 0.85)
• Plasticity moved from sculpture to education and biology by extension (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation (similarity 0.83)
• Flexibility is an unrooted notion while plasticity is a historically grounded concept (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity in mechanics means irreversible deformation, the opposite of elasticity (similarity 0.82)
• Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination (similarity 0.82)
• Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema (similarity 0.81)
• Plasticity adapts while flexibility submits, so the two are not interchangeable (similarity 0.81)
• Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.81)
• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form (similarity 0.81)
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.80)
• Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity is the exact antonym of rigidity, not its complement #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39