Life as Self-Maintenance
Life as Self-Maintenance
Author(s): Dieter WandschneiderSubject(s): History of ideas, Philosophy of Science, Ontology
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Organism; self-maintenance; intrinsic purposiveness; self-agency; Systems Theory; Kant; Hegel; Plessner;
Summary/Abstract: The article constructs the organism as a living being and - unlike an automaton - as an individual concerned with its own self-maintenance, endowed with intrinsic purposiveness, autoregulation, and with an agency of the self as well. This is done from the perspective of the philosophy of organism developed by Kant, Hegel, and Plessner, and subsequently in the light of Systems Theory. Hegel's Philosophy of Nature proves to be best suited to emancipate the contemporary, comprehensive understanding of organism and its selfhood. To put it with Hegel's words, it 'is the Concept that comes into reality' here.
Journal: Ethics in Progress
- Issue Year: 16/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 116-141
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English
