entelechy

• The substance of these bodies seem to be a sort of entelechy of affection, and affection connects man, beast and plant. —  Limited, Inc.
• In other words: if it is the dominant factor, as the writer would lead us to suppose; if there is "direction," then the action of energy must be directive; and, if it is directive, in what possible way does it differ, save in name, from the old entelechy or vital principle_, or whatever else one may choose to call it? —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• Form is the actual, the energy, the entelechy which actualises the potential and determines the final compound These few definitions will make clear the singularly ingenious idea of Aristotle on the nature of the body, the soul, and of their union. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
• The 'Realisation' of Aristotle is the 'Reminiscence' of Plato This conception Aristotle extended to Thought, to the various forms of life, to education, to morals, to politics Thought is an entelechy, an organic whole, in which every process conditions and is conditioned by every other. —  A Short History of Greek Philosophy
• We may therefore define the Soul or Vital principle as The earliest {205} realisation (entelechy) of a natural body having in it the potentiality of life To every form of organic structure this definition applies, for even the parts of plants are organs, although very simple ones; thus the outer leaf is a protection to the pericarp, and the pericarp to the fruit. —  A Short History of Greek Philosophy

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