ABSTRACT
Modern science appeared under the sign of a suppression of teleology, which means that it appeared under the sign of the emancipation of our natural view of the world. Medieval philosophy attempted to ponder objective teleology under the concept of repraesentatio. Pittendrigh introduced the expression by consciously distancing it from the concept of teleology that he considered teleological. The issue of universal teleology now gains renewed virulence regarding the theory of evolution. As regards the critical assessment of external finality, of universal teleology and of the teleological explanation of evolution, could see a recovery, a scientific reconstruction of the original philosophical idea of the telos in the new conceptual imagery of biology. The resulting relinquishment of the anthropomorphic vision of nature, leads man himself to finally become anthropomorphism. However, as a result, anthropomorphism also loses its meaning. Since the abolition of finality can only be completed at the cost of abolishing man, we cannot think about or desire its fulfilment.
