Telos

Quick meaning: Telos is a noun meaning (metaphysics) The aim, purpose, or end goal.

Meaning

(metaphysics) The aim, purpose, or end goal.

Example Sentences

the collapsing of bios and technos into each other is not only politically naive, producing a completely reified grand narrative of technology as the true agent and telos of natural and (in)human history

But confusion persists because of the more contentious issue between the technos and the telos of music and art making in general, the instruments versus the purposes to which they are put, the means and the ends.

In Lewis' view, such societies are cut off from an appreciation of the past, committed to the utopian ideal of unlimited progress, self-satisfied, concerned with technos rather than telos, and skeptical about reason.

Word Forms

• teloses
• teloi
• tele
• telea

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intention, object, idea, point, entelechy, entelechia.

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