Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself

Evidence

In the philosophical vision of spirit as such, spirit is studied as self-instruction and self-cultivation in its very essence, and its exteriorizations (seine Äußerungen) are stages in the process which brings it forward to itself (seines Sich-zusich-selbst-Hervorbringen), links it to unity with itself (seines Zusammenschließens mit sich), and so makes it actual spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 281

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of spirit’s self-formation through exteriorization and return — the mechanism of plasticity’s temporal deployment.
• XREF: connects to: The unified sense of self arose from internalized mastery of nature. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 298; The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 700; In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 986 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference #expands (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700
• In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986