Purposiveness, a great Kantian word,¹ signifies the "future possibility of an object, at which the object is aimed … "² For Hegel, the future object is Absolute Knowing, which comes about when Notion purges itself of externality. End (Zweck) produces itself and for this very reason is purposive. "Where purposiveness is discerned," Hegel writes, "an intelligence [Verstand] is assumed as its author." (734) Having discerned purposiveness, we demand that the "Notion's own free Existence" (734) should be the author of itself.