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• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter I
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  • be able to determine one's life and action by purposes
  • question is just whether reason, purposes, and decisions exercise
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter II
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  • translate our purposes into realities with the help of material
  • sciences, and so far my purpose has been solely to record the facts
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter III
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  • observations. The purpose of my reflection is to form concepts of the
  • different one. Whether, for this purpose, I make observations of my
  • spiritual activity. For this purpose it is quite irrelevant how one
  • this or that useful object. It is just the purpose of this book to
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter VII
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  • the purposes of knowledge even regarding sense-percept. It is
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter VIII
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  • perception for purposes of knowledge.
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter IX
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  • aim or the purpose of my will; my characterological disposition
  • first study the relation of this will to the action. For this purpose
  • objective purposes in nature into the limbo of dead theories. For
  • draws attention, between having a goal, purpose or task, which a man
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter X
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  • being, which pursues in men its own special purposes. Moral laws
  • behind human agents the purposes of a foreign world ruler,
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter XI
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  • World-Purpose and Life-Purpose
  • WORLD-PURPOSE AND LIFE-PURPOSE(THE DESTINATION OF MAN)
  • which we may call the overcoming of the concept of purpose in spheres
  • to which it does not apply. Adaptation to purpose is a special kind
  • Whoever maintains that the flower is the purpose of the root, i.e.,
  • which the concept of purpose is applicable.
  • The concept of purpose, valid for subjective actions, is very
  • purposes. Man makes his tools to suit his purposes. On the same
  • organisms. It is but slowly that this mistaken concept of purpose is
  • such questions as: What is the extra-mundane purpose of the world?
  • What is the extra-human destination (and, consequently, purpose)
  • concept of purpose in every sphere, with the sole exception of human
  • action. It looks for laws of nature, but not for purposes of nature.
  • Purposes of nature, no less than imperceptible forces (p. 93), are
  • arbitrary assumptions. But even life-purposes which man does not set
  • human life has no other purpose and destination than the one which
  • concept of purpose believe that, in surrendering it, they are forced
  • it foolish to deny purposes in nature. Just as the structure of a
  • natural life there is a high degree of purpose and plan unmistakable
  • purpose, such as nature exhibits in all her domains, then I consider
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• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter XII
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  • are purposes only for the subject). The study of them is, as it were,
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter XIII
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  • of the question concerning the purpose and
  • knows what God's purposes are concerning the world and mankind, he
  • world-purpose that is wise. But the pain of created beings is nothing
  • existence. Hence the purpose of the creation of the world is to
  • fact that the world-purpose mentioned above (p. 167) can be achieved
  • purpose of bringing about his salvation through their action, else
  • would creation be purposeless. And such a world conception envisages
  • extra-human purposes. Every one of us has to perform his own definite
  • totally indifferent what I do so long as it fulfils the purpose, then
  • does not recognize is as little acknowledged by my views as a purpose
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Chapter XV
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  • adopt the purposes of an objective (transcendent) primary being as
  • his own individual purposes, but he pursues the aims which his own
  • conduct. For this purpose it was necessary to sort out, from the
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Contents
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  • WORLD-PURPOSE AND LIFE-PURPOSE (THE DESTINATION OF MAN)
• Title: PoSA (Poppelbaum): Preface to the Revised Edition, 1918
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  • was not my purpose at that time to set down the results of spiritual