finalism
Noun
Meaning
finalism (countable and uncountable, plural finalisms)
teleology
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For example, the Jacobins behavior during the French Revolution would be a typical example of "empirical finalism."
It representing what Parsons called " worldly asceticism " and in that capacity, it represented the absolute opposite principle of empirical finalism.
Philosophy Bergson rejected what he saw as the overly mechanistic predominant view of causality (as expressed in, say, finalism ).