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	Telos (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A telos (from the Greek word for "end", "purpose", or "goal") is an end or purpose, in a fairly constrained sense used by philosophers such as Aristotle.
		It is the root of the term "teleology," roughly the study of purposiveness, or the study of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions.
		Philosophy of action also makes essential use of teleological vocabulary: on Davidson's account, an action is just something an agent does with an intention--that is, looking forward to some end to be achieved by the action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telos_(philosophy) (201 words)

	Narrative Telos: The Ordering Tendencies of Chance
		I argue that telos involves two distinct mechanisms--which are seldom both noted in traditional arguments--one for the maintenance of order and one for the discovery of new order, which I refer to as directionality and originality, respectively.
		If telos is understood as the emergent universal laws governing complex nonlinear processes, the paradox of telos, as that which governs the structure without having a preexisting structure itself, disappears.
		Telos is thought to be what actively and continuously causes the various factors to be present in the right proportions so that the correct state, say five foot two inches, will result.
	www.dactyl.org /directors/vna/Narrative_Telos.htm (15414 words)

	International Catholic University: 19. 1
		This is the kind of knowledge God has, and thus philosophy can be said to be an undertaking which seems ultimately to mimic, to the degree possible for a human intellect, the knowledge God has.
		Philosophy as practiced by Thomas Aquinas addresses each of these questions, although some of them come only when the culminating science, metaphysics, is undertaken.
		In comparing philosophy of nature to the empirical sciences, Maritain argues that the former has a greater claim on the term 'wisdom.' Not every reason he gives for this priority will be persuasive for all, but surely in some obvious sense it is true.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c01901.htm (3074 words)

	Interview with Telos
		While Telos does not have, and never has had a collective political position shared to the letter by all of its editors and collaborators, its political sympathies are predominantly communitarian in the above-discussed sense, which helps explain the consistency with which it is attacked by what remains of the doctrinaire Left and many soi-disant Rightists.
		This is why Telos has focused on federalism, understood not as the centralized administrative apparatus that the US federal system has become, but in the original sense of a minimalist government regulating the interaction of relatively autonomous political units.
		Now, the telos is even less, and the movement has been reduced to a badly managed corporatist compromise between the irreconcilable interests of feminists, ecologists, labor-unions, various minorities, etc. The "third way" is yet another New Class master-plan to survive in the 21st century.
	es.geocities.com /sucellus23/telos45.htm (13137 words)

	philjohn.com - essays: general discussion, p.4
		The aim of philosophy is to try to build its own building of knowledge and understanding, the aim of religious philosophy is to extend the given descriptions further to be able to understand more.
		Philosophy has always tried to create a better level of humanity, but at the same time philosophy not always acted in favor of that - it defied belief without accepting the necessity, the obviousness of the existence of belief.
		Both philosophy and religion have to distance themselves from political power; and both have to realize that they are belonging together as two facets of the same discourse.
	www.philjohn.com /papers/pjkd_g04.html (7041 words)

	Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education
		There is thereby a cancelling-out, in advance, of the possibility of anycoming-to-resistance an examination of the ethico-political exigencies of deconstruction could run against in relation to a "thinking-of-the-end" as the telos of philosophy by being contrapuntal to the curricularization of pedagogy oriented from the "historico-topologico-socio-cultural" regulation of its implementational styles.
		It upsets the surety of the "phenomeno-semio-logical" foundation of the institutional history of Western epistemology at the level of its theorizing about the value of the sign, reproducibility and representation, or what is the heart of the educational future of all philosophy and science as indicative of the empirical foundation of the certainty of truth.
		Its be-latedly teleologizing function of identifying difference that serves to "fill-in-the-spaces" of the socio-cultural puzzle of the categorical status of beings is a symbolic sanctioning of the logic to institute and implement a speculative curriculum of rote-memorization for the teaching and learning of philosophy.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/derrida-education.htm (2562 words)

	20th WCP: Philosophical Pluralism in the Service of Humane Governance
		The foregoing observations bring to the fore the fact that what is at issue in the prospect of pluralizing American philosophy departments is not merely the matter of deciding the discipline's boundaries of intellectual formation relative to the current generation of students.
		The idea that Europe and European philosophy are archontic for "humanity", for what may properly be conceived as "the ends of humanity", is surely suspect in the way in which Derrida calls it a "metaphysical racism".
		'Philosophy' construed narrowly, i.e., in terms that at their best represent fallacies of appeals to traditional wisdom and parochialism and at worst amount to the more serious charge of metaphysical racism, cannot but fail to meet the really urgent dimension of philosophical responsibility.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompSwaz.htm (1928 words)

	20th WCP: Paideia : Philosophy Educating Humanity through Spirituality
		Finally, it was generally agreed that human beings had a telos, a purpose which involved the cultivation of the virtues in order to become both a good person and a good citizen, the one being necessarily connected with the other.
		Clement of Alexandria sought to enshrine the fundamental link between philosophy and paideia by arguing that Christian philosophy, with its emphasis on the actual embodiment of the Logos, of the word made flesh - the ideal specification of a human life manifested in the being of Christ - was the philosophy to educate humankind.
		In respect of the telos, I take MacIntyre's neo-Aristotelian formulation to be the nearest, and clearest exposition of what it means to have and to pursue a fundamental purpose in human conduct, without prescribing too much of the specific content of that purpose.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Educ/EducGros.htm (5537 words)

	Notes on the Introduction to Adorno
		Philosophy therefore resembles art in its cogency and playfulness, but it is not an imitation of art: it is not intuitive and it does not yearn for reconciliation [between subject and object, thought and reality] only to fail (page 15).
		Philosophy must resist the choice between these given alternatives, both of which involve coercion and a coarsening of consciousness.
		Systems of 'first philosophy' can save themselves from accusations of groundlessness, but only by admitting that the primitive terms used are not secure, or at least not immediately, not until the final step is taken.
	www.arasite.org /adornond.htm (3370 words)

	telos
		The philosophy of nature of G.W.F. Hegel continues the tradition of Plato, Aristotle, and Kant, but Hegel subtracts a transcendent Creator from his picture and adds a sturdy anti-reductionist plank to his teleology.
		We are really quite certain that organisms use their resources, and one is overinstructed in philosophy [sic]who denies that such resources are of value to organisms instrumentally.
		Philosophy is a workshop where thinkers elaborate harmony among their commitments (positive or negative) regarding religion and science.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~jwattles/telos.htm (8186 words)

	Telos & Responsibility
		Hillman [1994] states that telos is opposite to cause as we generally think of causes today.
		Telos or purpose does not usually appear as a clearly framed goal, but more likely as a troubling, unclear urge coupled with a sense of unquestionable importance.
		Frankl articulates it well, no instinct tells the person without telos what s/he has to do, and no tradition tells him or her what s/he ought to do; sometimes s/he does not even know what s/he wishers to do.
	www.cognitivebehavior.com /theory/telosresponsibility.html (2101 words)

	Epicurus.info : E-Texts : Introduction to Cicero's De Finibus
		But it is of importance to the student of philosophy as the only systematic account from antiquity of those rules of life which divided the allegiance of thoughtful men during the centuries when the old religions had lost their hold and Christianity had not yet emerged.
		Telos came to be understood as denoting not so much the end or aim endeavor as the end or extreme point of a series, the topmost good.
		Philosophy was systematized, and fell into three recognized departments, Logic, Physics and Ethics; and for both schools the third department stood first in importance.
	www.epicurus.info /etexts/fintroduction.html (1402 words)

	About Telos Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Telos Studios is a web design, web software, and web accessibility company based in Lawrence, Kansas.
		Telos Studios was founded in 2003 by Laura Marshall, Brett Stoppel, and Josh Millstein.
		On occasion Telos Studios has the pleasant opportunity to work with Davis Hosting and Davis Networks.
	www.telosstudios.com /telos.html (443 words)

	Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy
		Inflationism is offered as an alternative: it is conjectured that philosophy might make more progress towards the traditional telos if we attempt to create beings (through the application of technology) who are as far removed from us in intelligence as we are from apes.
		Consider that as a mere point of logic, if there is a gap between the telos of philosophy and humanity then there are at least two means to close this gap: either philosophy can be scaled down into something more human, or philosophers can be scaled up into something more than human.
		Finally, I argue that philosophy is uniquely endowed among the academic disciplines to reflect on the potential impact of such a technological revolution.
	www.transhumanist.com /volume10/prolegomena.html (12087 words)

	Aquinas' Moral Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Thomas Aquinas' moral philosophy involves a merger of at least two apparently disparate traditions: Aristotelian eudaimonism and Christian theology.
		That telos is eudaimonia, or happiness, where “happiness” is understood in terms of completion, perfection, or well-being.
		While natural law is a significant aspect of his moral philosophy, it is a subject of considerable dispute and misunderstanding.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/aq-moral.htm (9457 words)

	Telos Press
		While Baker, blinded by the rose-colored glasses of realism ("let's make a deal" is the core of his philosophy), hopes to practice his conversational Farsi, people who really have to live in the Islamic Republic know better and, as reported widely, students in Tehran have courageously confronted the regime.
		The last two issues of Telos largely concerned historical phenomena, the formations of totalitarianism on the left and on the right, especially as they played out in Germany under the Nazis and then the Communists.
		Part of the interest was strictly historical, but of course the question of totalitarianism has suddenly returned in the efforts to understand the dynamics of illiberalism and anti-modernity that are sweeping the world.
	www.telospress.com (2141 words)

	International Catholic University: 19. 3
		We may note parenthetically that since metaphysics is the telos which gathers into an ordered whole all of the sciences, the learning of the other sciences is conducted under the guidance of metaphysics.
		Teaching any constitutive science of philosophy is thus a sapiential task with the teacher mindful of the ultimate orientation of the particular science to metaphysics.
		As for the division of speculative philosophy, this emerges as we seek to describe a possible science between the special sciences, that is, a science of being as being.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c01903.htm (2585 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 2.1
		For the Christian it is philosophy which must first be justified, not the faith, and if this period opens with men called Apologists, men who defend the faith it is the addressee of the apologia, not its writer, who is thought to be in need of what is said.
		It is this use of philosophy to explicate and defend the faith which constitutes theology according to a definition which will emerge; thus, the question arises whether philosophy is considered an autonomous pursuit by the Christian.
		Consequently, a man's original philosophy, as well as what he borrows, is to be found scattered through his theological writings, and it becomes difficult to determine what organizational principles we can use to construct a system of these fragments should they be extracted from their theological context.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp201.htm (2872 words)

	Telos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Telos (philosophy), the philosophical concept of purpose; it is related to teleology, the study of design, purpose, and intent.
		TELOS (journal), a journal of politics, philosophy, and critical theory.
		Telos Publishing Ltd., a publishing company that deals primarily in horror/fantasy and unofficial program guides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telos (181 words)

	The Postel Service: April 1991 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a recent Telos book review, Gottfried plunges straight into the raging debate over the Nazism of the late German philosopher Martin Heidegger, disputing the claim of Victor Farias (author of the book Heidegger and Nazism) that Heidegger's philosophy is deeply contaminated with fascism.
		Although Telos had always been critical of orthodox Marxism, there was no question of its commitment to socialism—indeed, to some reconstructed version of Marxist theory.
		In a 1987 issue of the editors' newsletter (the Telos Public Sphere), Piccone acknowledged a crisis at the journal—both organizational and theoretical: "Half of our editors have retired intellectually and burned out politically, the other half [are] rapidly becoming senile, cynical or purely careerist, while the rest are beset by a combination of both.
	www.postelservice.com /archives/1991_04.html (1626 words)

	Telos Venture Partners, Investment Philosophy
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	www.telosvp.com /int-phi.html (258 words)

	Illuminations: Bronner
		Philosophy makes sense of that indictment; it is illusory precisely because illusion of emancipation is preserved from history, to believe in the comprehension of the "totality" by philosophy.
		But it too would seek to preserve philosophy from the incursions of social theory and historicism, reject ontology, radicalize idealism by exploding its formalism, and subject its positive assumptions to critical scrutiny.
		I ts system character, yesterday still a shibboleth of academic philosophy, is strenuously denied by initiates of that philosophy; they may, with impunity pose as spokesmen for free, for original, indeed, for unacademic thinking.
	www.uta.edu /english/dab/illuminations/bron2.html (7611 words)

	SparkNotes: Fear and Trembling: Problema I
		The ethical is the telos, or end goal, of everything outside itself, and there is no telos beyond the ethical.
		The telos of the single individual is to become a part of the universal by annulling his singularity.
		Telos is a Greek word meaning "end" or "goal." Hegelian ethics is teleological because all actions are thought to be done with a particular end purpose in mind, namely, that the single individual should annul his individuality in order to become one with the universal.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/feartrembling/section6.rhtml (1334 words)

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		“On Telos and Genetic Engineering” by Rollin In the past, human self-interest was sufficient to motivate acceptable treatment of animals in agriculture, because if animals were not allowed to do the things they had a natural desire to do, they wouldn’t be productive.
		The Maxim to Respect Telos (12.4): If an animal has a set of needs and interests which are constitutive of its nature, then, in our dealings with that animal, we are obliged to not violate and to attempt to accommodate those interests, for violation of and failure to accommodate those interests matters to the animal.
		All it implies is that “given a telos, we should respect the interests which flow from it.” First Objection to Rollin: Any alteration of an animal’s telos results in a reduction in its well-being.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /streiffer/MHB565S05/11_Animal_Telos.doc (1241 words)

	SparkNotes: Nicomachean Ethics: Terms
		Telos - This important term can be translated variously as “end,” “goal,” or “purpose.” According to Aristotle, we have a telos as humans, which it is our goal to fulfill.
		This telos is based on our uniquely human capacity for rational thought.
		Aristotle’s view of humans having a telos based in our rationality leads directly to his conclusion in Book X that contemplation is the highest human good.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/ethics/characters.html (854 words)

	GUIDEBOOK FOR PUBLISHING PHILOSOPHY: JOURNALS
		It undertakes particularly to support sustained discussion of central issues in the various sub-fields of philosophy and systematic theology, especially though not exclusively where such discussion can be advanced by creative uses of the thought of Aquinas and significant authors in the Thomist tradition.
		History of philosophy, historical theology and textual studies, as they bear on enduring speculative questions or as they illumine the intelle ctual setting of Thomistic thought, also come within the scope of the journal.
		Editorial statement: Topoi is a review devoted to philosophical studies and to the history of philosophy, dedicated to illustrating the most important topics that have emerged from these disciplines in recent years, to indicate the growth of discussions upon these topics and to point out the principal tendencies that have developed in such discussions.
	sophia.smith.edu /~jmoulton/guidebook/jend3.htm (4842 words)

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