Read ironically, Philo could be saying that while "careless and stupid" observers are struck by purpose, intention, and design in the universe, careful, critical, intelligent ones are not.
However, he rejects the view that these same explanations are grounded on claims about the agent's intentions in acting, and he thereby sets aside the issues, sketched above, about purpose, intention, and their role in rationalizations.
The resultant theistic arguments, in their various logical forms, share a focus on plan, purpose, intention and design, and are thus classified as teleological arguments (or, frequently, as arguments from or to design).
It is in this context that Philo is understood to "reverse" his opposition to the design argument and concede to Cleanthes "that the works of nature bear a great analogy" to human productions and that a "purpose, intention, or design strikes everywhere the most careless, the most stupid thinker" (D, 12.2/214, 12.6/216 7 – my emphasis; cp. NHR, Intro.1, 15.1).
It is about coming up with an idea and then matching this idea with a systematic game plan focused around purpose, intention, and hard work.
We have been conditioned to want and need fast, easy, simple and free but what most of us really need is clarity, purpose, intention, experience and time to grow into the role of author/expert/speaker.
They referred to Jon Kabat-Zinn's description of mindfulness to explain their three axioms—"paying attention (Attention) in a particular way (Attitude): on purpose (Intention), in the present moment, and non-judgementally" (Kabat-Zinn, 1994, p. 4).
You read the dictionary's thesaurian list of synonyms: "intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, end, object, objective, goal".
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Third, punishment is a human institution, not a natural event outside human purposes, intentions, and acts.
