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- For Hegel, nature is a theatre of adaptation, but as an interactive process, where the organism not only adapts itself to but also actively modifies the environment, e.g., plants adapting the soil to their needs.
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Mar 18, 2021 · Later, in the philosophy of nature, Hegel will use this logical account of life in order to understand what makes natural organisms, which more or less correspond to the logical characterization of life, peculiar with respect to inorganic nature.
Any living organism, no matter its size or complexity, needs to demolish and rebuild its constitutive materials through its metabolic activities: assimilation,
Mar 1, 2012 · Put better, it is an ontology of living individuality. Hegel drew on the two philosophers who, he believed, had discovered and developed an ‘intrinsic’ notion of purpose: Aristotle and Kant. In Hegel’s words, Kant had the merit of having resuscitated ‘the determination of life by Aristotle’.
- Francesca Michelini
- 2012
Sep 19, 2023 · Living, organic nature, Hegel argues, is the realm of subjectivity (§ 252). Life is a concrete manifestation, an active “interpretation” of the concept by the organism as a subject (§ 251, Zusatz, p. 37).
Jun 6, 2017 · Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature is best understood through its contribution to Hegel’s larger philosophical project of both articulating and actually achieving human freedom. It contributes to this project by showing that nature and natural things are themselves free, in a specific sense of freedom that Hegel critically appropriates from Kant.
Aug 30, 2018 · Hegel aims to give a logically grounded conceptual account of living organisms—based on the logical relationship between part and whole—as well as to investigate the living organisation within the three elements of “sensitivity”, “irritability” and “reproduction”.
Apr 29, 2022 · I argue that the notion of “organisation” is fundamental to Hegel’s theory of animal normativity. The paper starts by showing how a Hegelian approach takes up the scientific image of organism and assigns a basic explanatory role to the notion of “organisation” in its understanding living beings.
