Through habit the soul regains a nature it natively lacks.

Evidence

From the interpenetration of the psychic and the physical achieved as a result of repeated exercise, man is able to discover the correct measure of his powers. If ‘naturally’ deprived of nature, the soul regains nature through the mechanisms of habit: ‘Habit is the mode of feeling (as well as intelligence, will, etc., so far as they belong to self-feeling) made into a natural and mechanical existence.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 572

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key paradoxical definition: habit is feeling made natural — a second nature achieved through the mechanical. The soul deprived of nature regains it via habituation.
• XREF: connects to: Habit makes the soul regain a second nature; Habit transforms natural into spiritual nature and grounds ethical life itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1358; Soul’s withdrawal into habitual unconsciousness enables consciousness to emerge — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 575 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit makes the soul regain a second nature #corroborates (0.95)
• Habit transforms natural into spiritual nature and grounds ethical life itself #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1358
• Habit alters a being’s internal potentiality, not merely its outward states. #expands (0.80)
• Soul’s withdrawal into habitual unconsciousness enables consciousness to emerge #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 575