Teleology means purposive activity, activity directed towards an "End". Inorganic matter, it is said, is capable of mechanical and chemical, but not purposive activity. Hegel divides the sec [..]

See Thing-in-itself and Thing-in-itself in the Glossary. See Lenin's annotations.

The various divisions of logic, Hegel says, may be looked upon as metaphysical definitions of God: ... "For a metaphysical definition of God is the expression of his nature in thoughts as such: a [..]

Objectivism is the philosophical standpoint which minimises the subjective aspect in history and cognition, preferring to describe a process as something objective, belittling the possibility of chang [..]

God is the way in which the dominant conception of knowledge and ethics in a given society are made to seem objective, by means of the conception of some extra-human entity which expresses or imposes [..]

§"In Itself" To subjective idealism or contemplative, un-dialectical materialism, "in itself" means independent of the nature of the cognising subject or the action of other things [..]

Philosophical standpoint which refrains from making value judgements, or intervening in the object and fails to recognise the fact that the subject is part of the object. See Objectivity in the Hints.

The second term in a simple sentence which says something about the first term, the "subject". E.g., "Fido is a dog" - "is a dog" is the predicate.

the second term in a simple sentence which says something about the first term, the "subject". E.g., "Fido is a dog" - "is a dog" is the predicate.

Purposeful action. See the Hints and ridicule of "external design" in Nature..