The syllogism defines the living organism through three self-relations
Evidence
The third syllogism is the Idea of philosophy, which has selfknowing reason, the absolutely universal, for its middle term: a middle, which divides itself into spirit and nature, making the former its presupposition, as process of the Idea’s subjective activity, and the latter its universal extreme, as process of the objectively and implicitly existing Idea. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986 (
#expands, via linked claim)
This process confers a specifically modern character on substance-subject’s movement of ‘seeing (what is) coming’. In virtue of the three determinations of plasticity, the modern moment (1) presupposes a certain form (self-consciousness in its relation to speculative content); (2) corresponds to a particular notion of self-determination (the subject in relation to its accidents); and (3) determines a certain modality of hypotyposis, i.e. the translation of the spiritual into sensuous form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 986; Hegel read the animal organism as a syllogism of self-relation, assimilation, and generic process; Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 649 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Hegel read the animal organism as a syllogism of self-relation, assimilation, and generic process
#corroborates(0.90) - In the third syllogism self-knowing reason mediates by dividing itself into spirit and nature
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 986 - Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination.
#complicates(0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649