Sentence examples for teleological end from inspiring English sources

He was keenly aware of the world as paradoxical, contingent and in a constant state of flux, and he preached struggle as part of a continuing political process rather than a means to a teleological end.

Consider, for example, an Aristotelian, Kantian, and Millian individually deliberating over whether a particular action or object is good, their respective deliberation and use of 'This is good' guided, as they would be, by their beliefs about whether the action or object under discussion exemplifies the promotion of a teleological end, a Good Will, or pleasure respectively.

For example, the idea that one culture can provide the place toward which all cultures are to progress also appears in the claim that American style liberal democracy and free-market capitalism mark the teleological "end of history" (see Fukuyama 1992).

The hermeneutical contest was keen, but there was a shared assumption that any blueprint for lasting peace and order presupposes an understanding of the Dao, which as the Laozi discloses, signifies the creative beginning and teleological end of all things (e.g., Chapters 1, 16 and 25).

Teleological ends and means are natural in the development of forces, location, space and particles; the interplay of forces is the vehicle of final causes, and the telos of nature is its own fulfillment.

The Politics begins in what Schofield, as seen above, would call rational-model mode, offering an analysis of the teleological ends of life and the human capacity for speech which together support one of its two most famous contentions: that "it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal" (I.2, 1253a2 3).

Paradoxically, this teleological emphasis obscures ends to focus primarily on the means available to reach these unspecified goals.

Human beings are teleological or goal driven.

Although students were less likely to endorse teleological reasoning at the end of the course, continued endorsement of intuitive teleological explanations for evolutionary change negatively predicted students' learning gains in understanding of natural selection.

According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, which would eventually reach a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable would occur simultaneously.

Difficulties arise, however, from the case of idle behaviour, in which I am doing A intentionally for no particular reason (Anscombe 1963, p. 25), and from the possibility or necessity that teleological series come to an end.