Organism
Hegel (Life, Teleology)
The living being as a purposively organized whole. Every organ is means and end at once. The organism is an end in itself --- it sustains itself through inner purposiveness.
Origin
Aristotle: life as self-movement. Kant: organism as a natural end. Hegel: organism as the paradigm of the Idea.
In Hegel
Enz. §216--218; SL Vol. 2, the Idea of Life