The concept of having may reduce to being or doing like other categories

Evidence

In their unrestrained eagerness to possess, the oppressors develop the conviction that it is possible for them to transform everything into objects of their purchasing power; hence their strictly materialistic concept of existence. Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the “haves.” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 141 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

With habit, a new form of the soul’s relation to its body comes into view, and this delivers the spirit from the threat of madness. In the etymology of the word ‘habit’ we discover the Latin word habere: habit is a way of ‘having’, and, in this sense, a kind of possession, a property. We see the same semantic connection between the Greek word ις which derives from the verb “ειν. This verb means ‘to have’, but as soon as it is followed by an adverb, it changes its meaning to include ‘the state of being in one way or another’. #Εειν is therefore a particular kind of having which becomes a way of being. Hegel brings out here the sense of a ‘having’ derived from a ‘mechanism’. Habit is in truth ‘mechanism of self-feeling’ (Mechanismus des Selbstgefühls). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 384 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All concrete desires reduce to having, doing, or being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1349; The desire to do ultimately reduces to a desire to be; Oppressor consciousness defines being as having (to be is to have) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 141 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Oppressor consciousness defines being as having (to be is to have) #corroborates (0.85) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 141
• Habit etymologically converts having into a way of being #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 384
• In Vitalogy, being reduces first to living, and being itself reduces first to reason. #corroborates (0.75)
• Habit’s relation to what one has resists infinite regress of having #qualifies (0.75)
• Life’s essence may reduce to the will to exist. #exemplifies (0.72) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 79