The Science And Philosophy of the Organism the Gifford Lectures Delivered Befor
The Science And Philosophy of the Organism the Gifford Lectures Delivered Befor
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The great father of systematic philosophy, Aristotle, as many of you will 144 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM know, is also to be regarded as the founder of theoretical biology. Moreover, he is the first vitalist in history, for his theoretical biology is throughout vitalism ; and a very conscious vitalism indeed, for it grew up in permanent opposition to the dogmatic mechanism maintained by the school of Democritus.
Let us then borrow our terminology from Aristotle, and let that factor ...in life phenomena which we have shown to be a factor of true autonomy be called Entelechy, though without identifying our doctrine with what Aristotle meant by the word ei/reXe^eta. We shall use this word only as a sign of our admiration for his great genius ; his word is to be a mould which we have filled and shall fill with new contents. The etymology of the word eWeXe^eta allows us such liberties, for indeed we have shown that there is at work a something in life phenomena " which bears the end in itself, " o e%ei ev eatrrw TO reXo9.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The great father of systematic philosophy, Aristotle, as many of you will 144 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM know, is also to be regarded as the founder of theoretical biology. Moreover, he is the first vitalist in history, for his theoretical biology is throughout vitalism ; and a very conscious vitalism indeed, for it grew up in permanent opposition to the dogmatic mechanism maintained by the school of Democritus.
Let us then borrow our terminology from Aristotle, and let that factor ...in life phenomena which we have shown to be a factor of true autonomy be called Entelechy, though without identifying our doctrine with what Aristotle meant by the word ei/reXe^eta. We shall use this word only as a sign of our admiration for his great genius ; his word is to be a mould which we have filled and shall fill with new contents. The etymology of the word eWeXe^eta allows us such liberties, for indeed we have shown that there is at work a something in life phenomena " which bears the end in itself, " o e%ei ev eatrrw TO reXo9.
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