Entelechia i zasada zachowania energii w rozumieniu Hansa Driescha

Abstract

The essay describes the relationship between entelechy and the conservation of energy prin-ciple. The author argues that entelechy in itself is a diversity and manifoldness of organic processes, which are not, however, construed as spatial extensities. Therefore, entelechy is not connected with the amount of spatial causality as such and it is not quantifiable in terms of energy although it is related to events in space. Entelechy is affected by and acts upon spatial causality as if the former came out of an ultra-spatial dimension. Hence, entelechy does not act in space. It acts into space while it is not in space – thereby only manifesting itself in some points in space.