CONCLUSIONS : THE KOUTE TRAVERSED 



" The Science and Philosophy of the Organism " we have 

 tried to analyse what is implied in these words, and now we 

 have finished our task, to the best of our ability. 



The science and the philosophy is this " and " really 

 justified ? Have we really undertaken two different kinds 

 of analytical studies ? It is true the development of the 

 common sea-urchin seems at the first glance rather remote 

 from the concept of categories and morality and universal 

 teleology, and thus it might seem, as many modern 

 philosophers maintain, as if science and philosophy were 

 really two things, only loosely connected. 



But there were philosophers in former times and 

 among them were Leibniz and Hegel who did not take 

 such a short-sighted view. And I think they are right. 



Givenness is One and philosophy is the endeavour to 

 understand Givenness. Part of Givenness is sensations, part 

 of it is categories, part of it is feeling, part of it is memory, 

 and there are many other parts. That domain of Givenness 

 which is formed out of sensations and categories we call 

 Nature. It makes no logical difference, it seems to me, 

 whether nature is studied with regard to what it actually 

 is, that is to say, what really happens in it, or whether 

 we try to discover which elemental parts of our mental 



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