teleologically

To speak teleologically is to speak of designs, ends, purposes in nature.

Teleologically, government implements the common desire of society, first, for freedom, and second, for security.

Was Melie already learning how to see teleologically?

The Cascade is what a Cardinal "sees" when they "look"teleologically.

Tyrtaeus's poetry is almost always interpreted teleologically, for signs of its subsequent impact on Spartan society.

'My awareness when itis Third augmented,can understand what I teleologically perceive.

Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors."

Some biology courses have incorporated exercises requiring students to rephrase such sentences so that they do not read teleologically.

Teleologically speaking, of course."

He would have wanted, teleologically speaking, to have plenty of adrenalin in the morning so that he would perform well in the hunt.

The song "Jocko Homo" makes fun of the concept, saying mankind is devolving into bestial idiots rather than teleologically evolving towards perfection.

In short, the apocalyptic, pre-Christian literature offers this double justification of martyrdom: causally it is inescapable, and teleologically ("what for") it is absolutely meaningful.

He argued that human personality could be explained teleologically, parts of the individual's unconscious self ideally work to convert feelings of inferiority to superiority (or rather completeness).

The metaxological considers the between as overdetermined and does not attempt to constrict or define the between or the ethos as whole or progressing teleologically.

On the other hand, judgement as teleologically employed assigns the determinate conditions under which something (e. g., an organized body) is to be estimated after the idea of an end of nature.

Kant's position is that, even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically.

For many classical philosophers, nature was understood teleologically, meaning that every type of thing had a definitive purpose which fit within a natural order that was itself understood to have aims.

The term "function", as applied to language, relates the system to the ends which the system serves, or (to put it less teleologically) to the way it is adaptable to the needs of its users.

The modern Mexican state - authoritarian, paternalistic, teleologically geared toward the achievement of the common good and therefore more interested in unity than in pluralism - is nearer to Aquinas than to Montesquieu.

Clark has frequently maintained that too often the 18th century has been interpreted teleologically in the light of the 19th; he sees his mission as an historian to explain the long 18th century in its own terms.

Simply put, causation in history occurs on a case by case basis, whereas any overarching determinism subjugating all cases to one and only teleologically articulated chain is like a fairy-tale, and definitely is not science.

Or, in mystic vein, an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s, the 1860s, nihilism, Bazarov, found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed - those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature, including futurity.

However, a historical perspective (and philosophical ones less interested into a single solid "gap") emphasizes the existence of a long period of transition between the teleologically driven centuries (running up the 13th or 14th centuries) and the rationalists-empiricists debates.

Social practices may themselves be understood as teleologically oriented to internal goods, for example practices of philosophical and scientific inquiry are teleologically ordered to the elaboration of a true understanding of their objects.

The factor that leads the World State on from one phase of development to the next is the interplay of individualities; to speak teleologically, the world exists for the sake of and through initiative, and individuality is the method of initiative.