Metaphysical Humanism and the Laws of Being, part XXVI—The Law of Purpose

The abbey Church of St, Jouin de Marnes

detail of a capital

Photograph by the author

The Law of Purpose

We’ve now come to one of the oddest properties in the universe. It’s not just the tendency of things to organize themselves, but the actual desire to do so, that’s puzzling. And it'sn’t just life that organizes itself; matter, from the moment that the qua…