Let us again apply the nameentelechy to that which lies at the very beginning of all individual morphogenesis.
It is here that the relation of the hypothetic transformistic principle to our concept of entelechy is concerned.
The analysis of individual morphogenesis and of individual inheritance has yielded us the concept of entelechy as the chief result of the first part of our lectures.
There is no contradiction at all in stating that material continuity is the basis of inheritance on the one side, and entelechy on the other.
In such a way, indeed, I hope we shall be able to reconcile entelechy and the material basis of heredity.
Our concept of entelechy marks the end of our analysis of individual morphogenesis.
Then you would recur to our first proof of vitalism and would burden entelechy with a specific performance, that is with the construction of the hypothetic machine which you are postulating in every single egg.
We at present are dealing with entelechy in a quasi-popular manner.
It is in respect of this that Aristotle gives to the soul the definition of being the entelechy (supra, pp.
The soul, Aristotle defines as the first entelechy of the body.
He then gives the Aristotelian definition of the soul as "the [first] entelechy of a natural body having life potentially" (cf.
The term entelechy which sounds outlandish to us may be replaced by the word realization or actualization and is very close in meaning to the Aristotelian use of the word form.
The soul constitutes the firstentelechy of a natural body.
Each soul or entelechy is surrounded by an infinite number of monads forming its body (p.
This monad is called the entelechy or soul of the aggregate or body, and as such mirrors the aggregate in the first place and the universe through it (p.
It is the entelechy of the living individual, be he typical or singular.
Material dramas are thus made moral and raised to an existence of their own by being expressed in what we call the souls of animals and men; a mind is the entelechy of an organic body.
If he can know himself by expressing the entelechy of his own nature in the form of a consistent ideal, he is a rational creature after his own kind, even if, like the angels of Saint Thomas, he be the only individual of his species.
One sporadic growth of human nature may be substituted for its whole luxuriant vegetation; one negative or formal element of happiness may be preferred to the full entelechy of life.
This first entelechy is what we should call life, since it is possessed by a man asleep.
Consciousness is therefore the second or actualised entelechy of its body.
Nor would divine perfection itself be in any sense perfection unless it gave expression to some definite nature, the entelechy either of the celestial spheres, or of scientific thought, or of some other actual existence.
It is the theory that there is some other element--call it entelechy with Driesch, or call it what you like--in living things than those elements known to chemistry and physics.
Let us continue the quotation: "Since certain forms of adaptation which were formerly mysterious can now be explained without the assumption of an entelechy we are encouraged to hope that all forms may be thus explained.
Entelechy works as if it were reasonable and acted with a set purpose.
A critical investigation ofentelechy would involve the broaching of the whole question of life.
The soul according to the Thomists, who use the Aristotelian definition, is the first entelechy of a natural organic body that has life in potency.
An entelechy is a realization, actuality, full perfection; sight, for example, is the entelechy of the eye.
But the truth is that Power and Entelechy are not essentially two, but only different aspects of one and the same.
This dormant possession is what Aristotle calls the First Entelechy or Energy, i.
The Aristotelian definition of Soul is thus: The first entelechy of a natural organized body, having life in potentiality.
But Entelechy establishes a separate and complete existence (p.
This is all that is essential to the soul; the second or higher entelechy (actual exercise of the faculties) is not a constant or universal property.
Two in the sameEntelechy can never be One in Entelechy.
Moreover, it is true that the soul is the Entelechyor the active principle, whereas the corporeal alone or the mere material contains only the passive.
Since the requirements of a new science would not allow a return to sheer scholasticism, it was necessary to find a fresh philosophy, in which entelechyand mechanism might be accommodated side by side.
Entelechy was a useful name for X, the more so as it had the authority of Aristotle, the master of scholasticism.
Under the name of entelechy Leibniz was upholding the soul of [14] scholastic doctrine, while retrenching the limbs and outward flourishes.
This is why Aristotle calls the soul the first entelechy of the living body.
The soul is the first entelechy (or actual realisation) of a natural organic body.
The full and final entelechy is the life of intelligence and character actively functioning.
It is not possible that the monad should have distinct consciousness of itself as a mirror of the whole universe, he says, "for in that case every entelechy would be God.
Actuality or entelechy on the other hand indicates the perfect act, the end as gained, the completely actual (the grown-up tree e.
Their remoteness may perhaps account for the fact that until the year 1817 no systematic description of them, and no scientific attempt at an explanation of them, appeared.
MacCulloch, who was then President of the Geological Society, presented to that Society a memoir, in which the roads were discussed, and pronounced to be the margins of lakes once embosomed in Glen Roy.
