PART II 

 THE DIRECT JUSTIFICATION OF ENTELECHY 



A. THE DIRECT PROOF OF THE AUTONOMY 

 OF LIFE BASED UPON INTROSPECTIVE 

 ANALYSIS OF COMPLETE GIVENNESS 



1. ANALYTICAL PART 



THE way which is generally followed in biology, as 

 in almost every branch of science and philosophy, leads 

 from the simple to the complex, both words being taken 

 in the sense of formal logic. But another method of 

 analysis is possible also, and this method is now to lead 

 us to an important result. We shall once more begin 

 our analytical study of biological phenomena, but we shall 

 begin it not with the most simple but with the most intimate 

 facts, that is to say, with those facts which are related 

 more closely than any others to the Ego. 



My own body as a scientific object is to be the starting- 

 point of this new type of biology ; my own body in the 

 strictest possible sense. 



But my own body is not to be regarded here as a 

 constitutive part of objectified "nature," at least not for 

 the very beginning of the analysis. The whole series of 



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