Entelechial

Quick meaning: Entelechial is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Of or pertaining to entelechy.

Meaning

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to entelechy.

Example Sentences

Could we not say that life proceeds in tandem with intrinsic prompting and invigorating entelechial energies, on the one hand, and the operative functional generation of force, on the other?

And this process “would be ‘entelechial’ or ‘perfectionist’ in the ironic sense of the term, insofar as the sufferer was in effect striving to impose a ‘perfect’ form by using the key terms of his formative wound as a paradigm.”

[E]ntelechy, or the entelechial motive, is a function of language and is rooted in history, in a verbal action by a human agent in a specific sociopolitical scene. The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.

I am assuming that an entelechial "tendency" […] does exist for human beings – that human beings "tend" to act in accordance with a purpose (or telos) which exists within the mind of the specific human taking the action. […] What would be more entelechial in the Burkean sense than a "single word" which reveals "an underlying pattern of experience"?

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entheogenic, entropological, enthesopathic, enthymematic, enthesial, telechiric.

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