Teleologies

The Cold War had contained two teleologies, one of which, in 1989 and the period soon after, seemed to have won. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What Foucault does find in Nietzsche to share is a genealogy that stands in opposition to a history that bases itself on "the metahistoric unfolding of ideal significations and vague teleologies" (1004-5). ❋ Unknown (2006)

As we shall see, these teleologies, and the belief in Other Minds, form the basis for the beliefs in the supernatural so widespread in human society. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

One function of all this evolved cognitive machinery is to impute teleologies -- goals and purposes -- to Other Minds in the world. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

As a result, we no longer experience a strong sense of teleology in worldly events, but, instead, we are confronted with a manifold of differences and partial teleologies that can only be judged aesthetically. ❋ Aylesworth, Gary (2005)

Now this sublimated form of the teleological argument, it will be remembered, I denoted a metaphysical teleology, in order sharply to distinguish it from all previous forms of that argument, which, in contradistinction I denoted scientific teleologies. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

Strangest Everything p. 43 - A ballad of teleologies - ❋ Unknown (2010)

The historian in me is fascinated by these teleologies at display: Alexander to the British to the Soviets to US. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nariman house to Gaza, Kashmir to Taj Hotel are not teleologies of tribalism and we make a grave error if we read them wrongly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is only when we understand how early moderns imagined and narrated lives, only that is through a full return to history and an exact historicizing, that we can newly conceive the meaning of those lives and begin to rewrite their histories free of the imperatives and teleologies of Enlightenment. ❋ Unknown (2009)