HEGEL S THEORY OF SECOND NATURE: THE LAPSE OF SPIRIT *

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1 HEGEL S THEORY OF SECOND NATURE: THE LAPSE OF SPIRIT * Christoph Menke (Goethe- niversita t rank rt a Main While in neo-aristotelian conceptions of virtue and ild n the concept of second nature describes the successful completion of human education, Hegel uses this term in order to analyze the irre- as an order of free- an order of second meaning of the term, second nature refers to spirit s inversion of itself: the free enactment of spirit produces an objective, un- other hand, the very same inversion of free positing into objective paper exposes this undecidable 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 In the re le tion on virt e in lassi al anti it the on ept o a se ond or other nat re serves to des ri e the s ess o ethi al ed ation or en lt ration (Bildung the ed ational pro ess (Erziehung has o e to a s ess l on l sion hen it is apa le o en enderin in the h an ein ( ho th s t rns into a e er o an ethi al-politi al o nit the ha it o the virt es as tho h it ere an other nat re everal varieties o neo- ristotelianis rrentl o er adaptations o this lassi al vie In the ollo in I o ld like to ontrast it ith the e a ination o the on ept o se ond nat re as ndertaken e el an e a ination that ela orates the irresolva le a i it o se ond nat re the on ept o se ond nat re arks to e el s ind oth spirit s hi hest peak and its deepest lapse In or in a se ond nat re spirit oth reali es and isapprehends itsel I ill e in des ri in se ond nat re as spirit s isapprehension or inversion o itsel (I in a airl a stra t * Translated Gerrit a kson

2 , I. Bildung n- e Bürger a- a- t- one 1 e- not having Werke in zwanzig Bänden i- Anmerkung Zusatz Werke a- 2 Kant s Writings

3 3 ser n- 4 in a- t- v - second 5 r- i- heteronomous a will determining 3 ourse of Voluntary 4 5 Kant s Gesammelte Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

4 , 6 - ntel or n- mode of being of the rule n- d- 7 6 Kant s 7 Werke Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften Hegel s spirit mind

5 n- - not a- - s- 8 - consist in its - 9 Gewohnheit es the Greek hexis habitus 8 Werke - Wissenschaft der Logik 9

6 , elian se 10 n- 11 concept within Körper Leib freedom i- - l spirit mind

7 transformation will s- 12 other essential aspect of habit mechanical natural effect 13 i- ion is per- a- exercised 12 I set aside here the re- 13

8 , in l- do of in a- 14 and not to 15 l- orientation does not he is nothing but n- - s- 14 t- 15 a

9 16 17 does not apply the in the particular r

10 , - 18 other aspect, the e- in itself 19 - This d spirit o- act its own 18 is 19

11 am the II. n- in like like or as inverts or perverts i- e- explains a second in against and through like 20 Werke 21 o-

12 , Abfall ith r- posited immediacy anthropological 24 o- -invers Verfallenheit self- Werke Enzyklopädie der philosophischen n spirit mind 25 Encyclopedia Hegels

13 spir - i- succumbs d- o- as the self- s between - not - n- -

14 , substance 26 manifestation - 27 s- ependent 28 - r- Hervorbringung we a- - - positing its world presupposition independent nature 26 spirit mind 27 as idea immediate - Umschlagen spirit s- - s- - idea 28 spirit mind

15 in relation to i- positing world presupposition nature - its independent - - e- and truth ibid and o- t - spirit can posit being denotes spirit has posit spirit mind

16 , and independent vis- - p- is se n- a- n- - n- at once and as ind by 30 (to have d or of against against by virtue of of

17 III. o- i- - - e- and 31 critique of second nature - r- s 31 - :

18 , i- genealogy of second nature - - its lapse The identity of error and success mere The difference between error and success - - -independent r-

19 that is the identity - - that is the difference