telos
Noun
Meaning
telos (plural teloses or teloi or tele)
The aim or goal.
Coordinate term: technos
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Examples
History, too, is meaningful only by indicating some transcendent purpose beyond the actual facts. ... To venture a statement about the meaning of historical events is possible only when their telos becomes apparent.
If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him.
Because Epicureanism posits that pleasure is the ultimate good (telos), it has been commonly misunderstood since ancient times as a doctrine that advocates the partaking in fleeting pleasures such as constant partying, sexual excess and decadent food.
Because the end (telos) is the principle of every change, and for the sake of the end exists potentiality, therefore actuality is the end.
Free will according to Thomas Aquinas Thirteenth century philosopher Thomas Aquinas viewed humans as pre-programmed (by virtue of being human) to seek certain goals, but able to choose between routes to achieve these goals (our Aristotelian telos ).
Teleological ethics Teleological ethics (Greek telos, "end"; logos, "science") is an ethical theory that holds that the ends or consequences of an act determine whether an act is good or evil.