IN [section]66 OF THE CRITIQUE OF THE
TELEOLOGICAL POWER OF JUDGMENT, (1) Kant states the "principle for judging of the internal purposiveness in organized beings" not once but three times.
If as in the now universal Judaeo-Christo-Muslim super-religion God is the creator, then God is the ultimate cause.In that very same case, your own human father and mother are nothing but prostrate instruments of the deity in his
teleological and miraculous ability to bring things, including embryos, into living existence.
Their topics include individuum and region of being: on the unifying principles of Husserl's "headless" ontology, the melody unheard: Husserl on the natural attitude and its discontinuities, laying bare the phenomenal field: the reductions as ways to pure consciousness, concepts without pedigree: the noema and neutrality modification, and Husserl's analogical and
teleological concepts of reason.
The book revolves around a provocative claim that these writers sought to produce experiences of virtuality--"ghostly," "mediated," "participatory"--that ruptured
teleological and ethnographic "national myths of citizenship" (13-14).
A central premise of Chinese identity throughout history has been that there is only one real culture by which all peoples should be measured and that all of history is a
teleological march toward the spread of that culture throughout "all under Heaven." Following their Chinese counterparts, Western scholars have often accepted this premise.
For this purpose, representationalists with naturalistic inclinations typically appeal to
teleological theories of mental content.
The ability to believe in Jesus' resurrection arises from that act occurring temporally, as part of God's ongoing
teleological plan..." An extensive bibliography and an index round out this welcome addition to Christian theological shelves.
Darwin's contributions to natural science, for some, removed final causes from the study of organic life and thus there is no longer any need for
teleological thinking in regards to organic life, but this collection of articles asserts the value of novel approaches to the study of metaphysics, epistemology, rationality, and the mind in the post-Darwinian naturalist landscape.
This section shows how HMJT causes these pro-life thinkers to shift from simple and easy to grasp deontological language to much more complicated
teleological language.
Leeman, in his insightful and in-depth work, The
Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, sets out to identify exactly what it is about Obama's rhetoric that touches and inspires his listening audiences.