Life as Self-Maintenance

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dc.contributor.authorWandschneider, Dieter
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-20T11:45:10Z
dc.date.available2026-01-20T11:45:10Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-26
dc.description.abstractThe article constructs the organism as a living being and – unlike an automaton – as an individual concerned with its own self-maintenance, endowed with intrinsic purposiveness, autoregulation, and with an agency of the self as well. This is done from the perspective of the philosophy of organism developed by Kant, Hegel, and Plessner, and subsequently in the light of Systems Theory. Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature proves to be best suited to emancipate the contemporary, comprehensive concept of organism and its selfhood. To put it with Hegel’s words, it ‘is the Concept that comes into reality’ here.
dc.identifier.citationWandschneider, D. (2025). Life as Self-Maintenance. ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 16(1), 116–141. https://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2025.1.8
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2025.1.8
dc.identifier.issn2084-9257
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10593/28408
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydział Filozoficzny UAM
dc.rightsAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectOrganism
dc.subjectself-maintenance
dc.subjectintrinsic purposiveness
dc.subjectself-agency
dc.subjectSystems Theory
dc.subjectKant
dc.subjectHegel
dc.subjectPlessner
dc.titleLife as Self-Maintenance
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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