In absorbed action teleological order reverses causal order

Evidence

My attitude, for example, has no “outside”; it is a pure process of relating the instrument (the keyhole) to the end to be attained (the spectacle to be seen), a pure mode of losing myself in the world, of causing myself to be drunk in by things as ink is by a blotter in order that an instrumental-complex oriented toward an end may be synthetically detached on the ground of the world. The order is the reverse of causal order. It is the end to be attained which organizes all the moments which precede it. The end justifies the means; the means do not exist for themselves and outside the end. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows Beauvoir’s ethics of the end not justifying the means — the explicit reading purpose. — connects to: One’s own action is misrepresented when understood through the other’s observable teleology; Hegel replaces teleological act-potentiality appearing with linear sensory sequence — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 877; Teleological explanations appeal to future purpose while mechanistic explanations trace earlier causes. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 362 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Teleological explanations appeal to future purpose while mechanistic explanations trace earlier causes. #expands (0.90) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 362
• One’s own action is misrepresented when understood through the other’s observable teleology #expands (0.85)
• Hegel replaces teleological act-potentiality appearing with linear sensory sequence #contradicts (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 877