Dysteleology

Dysteleology is the philosophical view that existence has no telos - no final cause from purposeful design.

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) invented and popularized the term dysteleology^[1] (German: Dysteleologie^[2]).

See also

• Adevism
• Argument from poor design
• Epistemology
• Existential nihilism
• Faith and rationality
• Kierkegaard
• Materialism
• Meaning of life
• Nietzsche
• Philosophy of religion
• Teleological argument
• Teleology
• Teleonomy

References

1. Romanes, George J. (1874-03-12). "Natural Selection and Dysteleology". Nature. 9 (228): 361–2. doi:10.1038/009361a0. 'Prof. Haeckel has invented a new and convenient name, "Dysteleology," for the study of the "purposelessnesses" which are observable in living organisms—such as the multitudinous cases of rudimentary and apparently useless structures.'
2. Haeckel, Ernst. Allgemeine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Organismen: Kritische Grundzüge der mechanischen Wissenschaft von den entstehenden Formen der Organismen (Ernst Haeckel: Generelle Morphologie der Organismen) De Gruyter, Reprint 2019 edition (1 Jan. 1866).

External links

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dysteleology" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.