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Philosophical view that existence has no final goal

Dysteleology is the philosophical view that existence has no telos - no final cause from purposeful design.

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) invented and popularized the term dysteleology[1] (German: Dysteleologie[2]).

• Adevism
• Argument from poor design
• Epistemology
• Existential nihilism
• Faith and rationality
• Kierkegaard
• Materialism
• Meaning of life
• Nietzsche
• Philosophy of religion
• Teleological argument
• Teleology
• Teleonomy

1. ^ Romanes, George J. (1874-03-12). "Natural Selection and Dysteleology". Nature. 9 (228): 361–2. doi:10.1038/009361a0. 'Prof. Haeckel has invented a new and convenient name, "Dysteleology," for the study of the "purposelessnesses" which are observable in living organisms—such as the multitudinous cases of rudimentary and apparently useless structures.'
2. ^ Haeckel, Ernst. Allgemeine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Organismen: Kritische Grundzüge der mechanischen Wissenschaft von den entstehenden Formen der Organismen (Ernst Haeckel: Generelle Morphologie der Organismen) De Gruyter, Reprint 2019 edition (1 Jan. 1866).

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dysteleology" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.