The purposiveness of life is part of thepurposiveness of the universe; just as the stars circle for ever in harmoniously adjusted paths, so do the processes of life work together towards a common end.
This movement, as it is pleasing, must involve a purposiveness in the harmony of the mental powers; and the purposiveness may be either in reference to the faculty of cognition or to that of desire.
Of the aesthetical representation of the purposiveness of nature 30 VIII.
Hence the purposiveness in the product of beautiful art, although it is designed, must not seem to be designed; i.
Of the relative, as distinguished from the inner, purposiveness of nature Experience leads our Judgement to the concept of an objective and material purposiveness, i.
Even if they deserve to be brought into consideration in the universal theory of the purposiveness of things of nature, yet they belong to another [science], i.
There was no need of a conscious Creator or a transcendental purposiveness to effect this.
Baer, especially, has laid stress on the purposivenessof all vital movement.
This was particularly due to the remarkable, orderly structure of the organism and the apparent purposiveness of the vital processes.
All these metaphysical, supernatural, and teleological ideas, like the older mystic notion of a special vital force, rest on a perversion of judgment by the apparent freedom of will and purposiveness of organization in the higher organisms.
These thinkers overlook the fact that this purposiveness can be traced phylogenetically to simple physical movements in the lower organisms.
To these we must add a fifth: the purposiveness of the actions of living beings, as of the machines which they make or select.
It is a battle between teleology and non-teleology, between the purposiveness and the non-purposiveness of the organs in animal and vegetable bodies.
A purposiveness must, however, be attributed even to the crude matter, otherwise it would not be possible to think the purposive form of animals and plants.
Such purposiveness is internal, for the organism is at once its own cause and an end to itself, not merely a means to other ends, like a machine whose purposiveness is relative and whose cause is external.
This is not the case if the purposiveness is external, relative to its utility for something else.
This God-awakened will to be lies at the roots of the mysteries of development in all living creatures, of the unconscious purposiveness of instinctive action, of the gradually ascending development of psychical life and its organ.
But in these writings his main argument is that of his concluding chapter: the spontaneous adaptiveness of the organism, which nullifies all contingent theories to explain the purposiveness in ontogeny and phylogeny.
He declares a belief in evolution and in purposiveness to be incompatible, and denies purpose in language which holds out little prospect of a compromise.
Ostwald: "That the quite complicated problem concerning the purposiveness of organism loses its character of a riddle, at least in principle, and assumes the aspect of a scientific task, all by virtue of this simple thought .
The principle of purposiveness arises properly, he holds, from the contemplation of living things, from the perception of the difference between an organism and a machine.
Suffusing the whole, embracing the whole, permeating each single member of the whole, there must be an organising and directing Activity, or we should not see the order and purposiveness we do.
Nature has purposiveness as an Artist has purposiveness.
And when we note the evidence of purposiveness everywhere so abundant, we cannot resist the conclusion that this Activity also gives direction.
With this elimination of the element of purposiveness from the hylozoistic world, the content and process of nature are fitted to one another.
For just as imagination and understanding, in judging of the beautiful, generate a subjective purposiveness of the mental powers by means of their harmony, so imagination and Reason do so by means of their conflict.
Idea was adopted, and look upon thepurposiveness of nature as contingent and hyper-physical in its origin.
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