The soul’s perfection into spirit simultaneously exhausts and kills man

Evidence

At the moment when the soul has perfected itself as a ‘work of art’, it ceased to be a soul: ‘The soul, thus setting in opposition its being to its (conscious) self, absorbing it, and making it its own, has lost the meaning of mere soul, of the immediacy of spirit.’ In its highest moment, the soul has turned itself into spirit. In this expiring, it is also man who has become exhausted and died, leaving nothing behind except the part created by habit, that is, the mechanism of self-feeling, which will live on as the foundation of all the forms of theoretical and practical spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 606

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• The soul’s perfection as spirit is also man’s own exhaustion and death (similarity 0.97)
• Total habituation to life extinguishes the very striving that constitutes vitality (similarity 0.81)
• The soul becomes both substance and subject in Hegel’s analysis. (similarity 0.79)
• Soul’s withdrawal into habitual unconsciousness enables consciousness to emerge (similarity 0.79)