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  • Chapter 6 - The Non-truth of External Purposiveness

  • Edgar Maraguat, Universidad de Valencia
  • Book:
    True Purposes in Hegel's Logic
    Published online:
    16 May 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 111-134

  • 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.