Retrospection liberates speculative content from one-sided forms into absolute form

Evidence

These syllogisms retrospectively explain the entire speculative cycle of the Encyclopedia as a whole: Logic, Nature, Spirit. The retrospective look that philosophy gives itself allows it to become liberated from the ‘onesidedness of forms’ and to establish the speculative content as a System, or ‘absolute form’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 938

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows what ‘plastic force’ means here: the System or absolute form is the achieved unification made possible by retrospective totalizing.
• XREF: connects to: Absolute Knowledge transforms via a retrospective move that turns predicate into speculative proposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 929

Broader Connections

• Absolute Knowledge transforms via a retrospective move that turns predicate into speculative proposition #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 929