This, according to Kant, differs from the "low" teleology where an entity decides to use external means for its own goal, which was the religious claim about god or some "high" entity with its own agenda for the world and humans.

In The Science of Logic, and more elaborately in Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Hegel wrote that life occurs when a body advances from "mechanism" and "chemism" to acquire the goals of self-preservation and