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The aim of the present work is a reconstruction, analysis and elucidation of Hans Driesch’s vitalistic conception insofar as it was developed in the course of his biological and philosophical research. I am presenting two kinds of perspectives, i.e. methodological vitalism and metaphysical vitalism in Hans Driesch’s interpretation. I am arguing that methodological vitalism, in contradiction to metaphysical vitalism, is a conditionally valuable investigative perspective developed in the biological course by Hans Driesch. In favor of this thesis, I am analyzing Driesch’s fundamental concepts (e.g. prospective power, prospective meaning and harmonious-equipotential system), as necessary means–in his opinion–to be used in effective research and observations in the domain of morphogenesis, aimed at revealing the developmental specificities of organic phenomena in contradistinction to inorganic phenomena. |
