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- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology
- Chapter 3 Kant’s Concept of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Teleology
- Chapter 5 The Non-truth of Mechanism
- Chapter 6 The Non-truth of External Purposiveness
- Chapter 7 The Truth of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 8 The Immediate Actuality of Purposes
- Chapter 9 The Absolute Realised Purpose
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - The Non-truth of External Purposiveness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2023
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology
- Chapter 3 Kant’s Concept of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Teleology
- Chapter 5 The Non-truth of Mechanism
- Chapter 6 The Non-truth of External Purposiveness
- Chapter 7 The Truth of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 8 The Immediate Actuality of Purposes
- Chapter 9 The Absolute Realised Purpose
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter removes some obstacles that interfere with the correct understanding of ‘Teleology’ in Hegel’s Logic. According to a common mistake, ‘Teleology’ addresses the external purposiveness of human intentions. This misconstruction emerges from Hegel’s discussion of ‘subjective purposes’ therein and then apparently of the means employed by a person trying to achieve them. Another important misunderstanding affects the kind of reflexive argument that ‘Teleology’ develops. Among those who take it that the chapter addresses the difficulties of realising intentions, some claim that it provides an anti-sceptical transcendental argument to prove the effectiveness of some purposes. I make my case against this kind of interpretation before I present my own alternative account in the following chapter.
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- True Purposes in Hegel's Logic , pp. 111 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023