GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 



Entelechy related to Space and therefore belonging to Nature, 



but Entelcchy not in Space 



THE contrast between the Non-living and the Living has 

 appeared in all the discussions of this long part. 1 



But the contrast always was a contrast with regard to 

 nature, or rather in nature as the " Given ' in space. We 

 have at no time lost sight of nature by what we have 

 said. 



This contrast is indeed of a most fundamental character : 

 there is quite a new type of natural becoming revealed to 

 us, whenever entelechy is at work, actively increasing in a 

 regulatory way the amount of diversity of distribution on 

 account of its intensive manifoldness after it has been affected 

 by individualised stimuli. Inorganic becoming relates to 

 extensities and is measured by energy ; we may say that 

 energy measures the amount of causality which is spatial in 



1 The same contrast would appear if we were to relate entelechy to a 

 certain modern type of analysing inorganic systems, i.e. the so-called 

 "principle of phases," which also rests upon aprioristic considerations. I 

 have discussed entelechy under this aspect in my Naturbegriffe, p. 182 ; but it 

 seems to me that the result to be possibly obtained would not repay a long 

 analysis in these lectures. Entelechy is a "parameter" of its own kind 

 helping with the inorganic parameters to determine "equilibrium" and 

 " degrees of freedom." This is the whole result to be obtained. 



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