telos

• “We see this over-arching teleological from the Greek word telos or goal understanding of the human good present in the following statement that De Roover makes concerning the teaching of St. Antonino:”

  Corporation Christendom Part Two

• “Teleology' is derived from the Greek word telos, which means 'end.”

  Vanguard

• “Derived from the Greek word telos, which refers to purpose or end, this argument hinges on the idea that the world gives evidence of being designed, and concludes that a divine designer must be posited to account for the orderly world we encounter.”

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• “We must also conclude that the Dionysian telos is inherent in any archetypal situation or image,”

  Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology

• “The sign of the telos is the setting up of "the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet.”

  Commentary on Revelation

• “These stages eventually reach the "telos" (Greek for "end") of self-understanding, and we aren't free to understand reality until Geist comes to know itself.”

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• “When someone who accepts modern biology says that non-abortifacient contraception is unnatural, they are referring to the telos of an action, primarily, and not a person, or they refer to a person only in the sense in which their telos is subject to the "telos" of the action.”

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• “Within Orthodoxy the "telos" of the given act is derivative of the telos of the person or persons involved.”

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• “We are not meant to serve the "telos" of a given act.”

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• “a gradual unfolding of the capacities inherent in man's nature, a process which proceeds in orderly fashion toward its telos, which is the realization of human nature in all its fullness and perfection.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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