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On the Concept of the Organic since Kant.
April 1868.
Excerpt from:
Nietzsche's Writings as a Student.
Translation Copyright 2012, The Nietzsche Channel.
[Preparatory Notes
for a Planned Dissertation: "On the Concept of the
Organic since Kant."]1
On Teleology.
| Trendelenburg |
Log[ical] Investiga[tions] 2nd
ed. Leipzig. 1862. II. p. 65f.2 |
| Gustav Schneider |
Of Aristotelian Final Cause.
Berl[in] 1865.3 |
| Hume |
Dialogues Concerning Natural
Religion German by Schreiter Leipz[ig] 1781.4 |
| Kant |
— Crit[ique] o[f] P[ure]
R[eason].5 |
| |
— Crit[ique] o[f]
Judgm[ent]6 |
| Rosenkranz |
Hist[ory] of Kant[ian]
Philos[ophy].7 |
| Kuno Fischer |
Kant etc8 |
O[n] T[eleology]
Kant tries to prove that a necessitation
exists for us to think of natural bodies as premeditated,
i.e., according to concepts of purpose.9
I can only add that this is a way of explaining
teleology.
The analogy of human experience, moreover, still provides for the accidental, i.e. the unmediated development of purposiveness, e.g., in the fortunate coincidence of talent and destiny, lottery tickets, and other things.
Therefore: in the infinite abundance of actual cases must also be the suitable or purposive.
The necessitation
of which Kant speaks hardly exists anymore for our time:
however, one remembers "that even Voltaire considered the teleolo[gical] proof unattainable."10
Optimism and teleology go
hand in hand:11 both dispute that the
unpurposive is actually something unpurposive.
In general the weapon
against teleology is: proof of unpurposiveness.
Through this it would only
show that [....]
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