One’s own action is misrepresented when understood through the other’s observable teleology

Evidence

When a schoolboy trips his fellow to make him fall and to get the other boys to laugh, he has certainly engaged in an eminently teleological act, an exploitation of natural occurrences by intellect and will; but one can hardly categorize it under the concept of culture! — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 548 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In absorbed action teleological order reverses causal order — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 724; Teleological human action alone does not constitute culture — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 548; Hegel replaces teleological act-potentiality appearing with linear sensory sequence — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 877 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Teleological human action alone does not constitute culture #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 548