Self-abrogation is self-moving automatism, not a sovereign self’s autocratic decree

Evidence

Abrogation, or letting-go, works by itself (aus sich selbst), but through an automatic and not an autocratic movement. The terms ‘Self’, and ‘itself’ are translations of the Greek α τ. α τµατς means the self-moving, that which goes, comes, and acts propelled by its own motion. Self, or Selbst, appears in Hegel’s concepts of Selbstbewegung, self-motion, Selbstbestimmung, self-determination. By employing these terms, Hegel draws attention to a law of composition and a process of synthesis which are self-initiating and self-causing. For this automatism to function it requires the principle of self-distribution and self-classification. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1085

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Etymologically grounds Selbst in Greek automaton, sharply distinguishing self-moving spontaneity from mastery-driven autonomy.
• XREF: Resonates with Malabou’s plasticity: the subject that abdicates its own sovereignty does so by an automatic self-motion, bearing on reader’s question of how passive reception tips into explosive redefinition.

Related

• Hegel’s Selbst (self) means self-motion, not self-mastery — automaton, autos, not autocracy. (similarity 0.94)
• Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel’s letting-go appears to contradict sublation’s retention of everything. (similarity 0.82)
• Abrogation is sublation freed from the mastery of consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Abrogation is sublation detached from the masterful subject-object relation (similarity 0.81)
• Absolute Knowledge transforms sublation itself rather than halting the dialectic. (similarity 0.81)
• Speculative abrogation is the Aufhebung’s self-sublation that frees from attachment (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel’s lexicon contains a motif of letting-go opposite to sublation (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s Self is a primordial synthetic instance prior to the I-self (similarity 0.78)
• Hegel’s letting-go verbs make the absolute both liberation and absolution (similarity 0.78)