| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Teleology in the Science of Logic -- 1.1 A Metaphysical Approach -- 1.2 Relevance and Reception of the Chapter 'Teleology' -- 1.3 Outline of This Book's Argument -- 1.4 The Philosophical Shadow of 'Teleology' -- Chapter 2 Kant's Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology -- 2.1 Two Antinomies-But One Single Conflict -- 2.2 Conciliation without Unification -- 2.3 The Shortcomings of Kant's Solution -- Chapter 3 Kant's Concept of Inner Purposiveness |
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3.1 Kant's Concept of Natural Purposiveness and Its Two Varieties -- 3.2 The Analysis of the Concept of Internal Natural End -- 3.3 The Antinomy of Judgement -- 3.4 The Unification of Mechanical and Final Causality -- Chapter 4 Aristotle's Defence of Natural Teleology -- 4.1 Necessity, Chance and Purpose: The First Argument -- 4.2 Production through Stages: The Second Argument -- 4.3 The Aristotelian Concept of Life and Its Reception by Hegel -- Chapter 5 The Non-truth of Mechanism -- 5.1 Hegel's Peculiar Argument by Elimination -- 5.2 Causal Inexplicability |
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5.3 Mechanical Inexplicability -- 5.4 The Sublation of Mechanism in Teleology -- Chapter 6 The Non-truth of External Purposiveness -- 6.1 Subjective Purposes -- 6.2 Transcendental Arguments for a Purposive Connection -- 6.3 An Underivable Purposiveness -- 6.4 Towards a Non-transcendental Argument -- Chapter 7 The Truth of Inner Purposiveness -- 7.1 Arguing without Presupposing Ends -- 7.2 The End as a Cause of Itself: The Contradiction of the Purposive Connection -- 7.3 Effects That Are Purposes: The True Realisation of the Concept -- 7.4 The Ambiguous Question about the Origin |
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7.5 Mechanism and Teleology: Contradiction, Conciliation and Sublation -- 7.6 The Truth of External Purposiveness -- Chapter 8 The Immediate Actuality of Purposes -- 8.1 Inner Purposiveness and Life -- 8.2 The Objectivity of Ideas -- 8.3 The Logical Idea of Life -- 8.4 The Impotence of Nature -- 8.5 The Teleology of the Animal Organism -- Chapter 9 The Absolute Realised Purpose -- 9.1 The Concept of Spiritual Life -- 9.2 Cognition and Action as Teleological Processes -- 9.3 The Concept Which Exists as a Concept -- 9.4 The Imperishable Life of the Concept -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book addresses a key issue in Hegel's philosophical legacy - his account of purposiveness and teleology - that has often been wrongly criticised and misunderstood. Its re-examination of the issue has implications for the whole of Hegel's philosophical legacy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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| SUBJECT |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast |
| Subject |
Teleology.
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Necessity (Philosophy)
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Necessity (Philosophy)
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Teleology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022052390 |
| ISBN |
9781009304924 |
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1009304925 |
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9781009304917 |
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1009304917 |
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