Ravaisson saw habit as change occurring within an unchanged internal disposition

Evidence

Ravaisson, commenting on this passage, argues: ‘Habit does not simply introduce mutability into something that would otherwise continue without changing; it suggests change within a disposition, within its potentiality, within the internal character of that in which the change occurs, which does not change.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 495

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes habit’s change-in-disposition from mere external mutability — a precise conceptual clarification of plasticity’s internal character.
• XREF: Change within a persisting potentiality prefigures the paradox of a changing yet self-identical brain/subject central to Malabou’s plasticity. — connects to: Repeated external change becomes internal change through reversal of passivity into activity; Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 573; Habit unites passive contemplation with active exercise in organic adaptation

Broader Connections

• Habit unites passive contemplation with active exercise in organic adaptation #expands (0.88)
• Repeated external change becomes internal change through reversal of passivity into activity #expands (0.85)
• Habit abolishes the partition between interior and exterior #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 573