The Power of Philosophy by Kaustuv Roy

Author:Kaustuv Roy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319969114
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

22“This philosophy must accept that there is a hierarchy of life in Nature . Even in mere organized matter there is life, but the life of a more restricted kind. This idea is so old, and has hitherto persisted so constantly in the most varied forms, right up to the present day—(that the whole world was pervaded by an animating principle)—that one may very well surmise from the beginning that there must be some reason latent in the human for this natural belief. And so it is. The sheer wonder which surrounds the problem of the origin of organic bodies, therefore, is due to the fact that in these things necessity and contingency are most intimately united. Necessity , because their very existence is purposive; contingency, because this purposiveness is nevertheless actual for an intuiting and reflecting being .” Schelling , Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature , p. 35.

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