Critique of Judgment
The term "organism" (from Greek ὀργανισμός, "organismos", from ὄργανον, "organon", i.e. "instrument, implement, tool, organ of sense or apprehension") first appeared in the English language in 1703 and took on its current definition by 1834 (Oxford English Dictionary). It is directly related to the term "organization". There is a long tradition of defining organisms as self-organizing beings, going back at least to Immanuel Kant's 1790 "Critique of Judgment".