Endlike

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Of, relating to, or pertaining to the end; final; terminal..

Example Sentences

[…] and if there is more than one virtue, from the best and most final (or endlike) of them over a finished lifetime.

I am proposing here to understand the qualifier τελεα in application to eudaimonia in X 7 (as with τελειοτάτη ἀρετÆ at I 7, 1098a18) as meaning “final” or “endlike,” in accordance with Aristotle's explicit statement [...]

Thus what Aristotle is referring to are endlike results that arise in nature but are produced in an unusual or exceptional fashion; […]

Or, rather, here are some things that seem endlike, but they are not truly endlike. They only seem endlike because they reflect a posturing of false pretensions and surrogate determinances.

Invoking once again the criteria he laid down in I.7 for the best good, he tries to show that the contemplative life is most endlike and most self-sufficient, […]

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• more endlike
• most endlike

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