Abstract

MENKE, CHRISTOPH; REBELLES, SANTIAGO  and  ZUNIGA, JOSÉ F.. LA TEORÍA DE LA SEGUNDA NATURALEZA DE HEGEL EL "LAPSO" DEL ESPÍRITU. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2022, vol.71, suppl.9, pp.11-31.  Epub June 25, 2024. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvaiores.v71n9supl.106740.

While in neo-Aristotelian conceptions of virtue and Bildung the concept of "second nature" describes the successful completion of human education, Hegel uses this term to analyze the inevitably ambiguous and even conflictive nature of spirit. Spirit can only realize itself creating (1) a second nature as an order of freedom, losing itself, or creating (2) a second nature -an order of externality, ruled by the unconscious automatisms of habit. The second meaning of the term, "second nature" refers to spirit's inversion of itself: the free enactment of spirit produces an objective order, uncontrollable; "second nature" is here a critical term. On the other hand, the very same inversion of free positing [Setzen] into objective existence is the moment of the success of ("absolute") spirit. The paper exposes this unspeakable ambiguity of second nature and claims that its acceptance and development are the conditions of an adequate understanding of the constitution and forms of second nature.

Keywords : G. F. W. Hegel; Spirit; nature; habit.

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