entelechy

entelechy englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

1. entelekia

entelechy englanniksi

1. The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized.

2. (quote-book) 'separable from the body,' (..) 'because it is not the entelech of any body.' (..) &91;page 500&93; Wickedness is the form and entelech of all the wicked spirits: it is the difference of a name, rather than any proper difference of natures that is between the devil and wicked men.

3. (quote-book) Act and entelechy bespeak something fulfilled, actualized perfection, or the actualized. The soul, hence, insofar as it is essence or form of the body, is the act and entelechy of the body; and in general all forms of sensible substances are act and entelechy. God, we will see, will be pure entelechy (and just as the other movent Intelligences of the celestial spheres).

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5. (quote-book)The Journey to the Summits of Perfection{{': Moral Evolution as a Utopian Vista in the Dutch ''Fin de Siècle''|editors=Mary G. Kemperink; Willemien H. S. Roenhorst|title=Visualizing Utopia Studies in Cultural Change; vol. 27|location=Leuven|publisher=(publishing company)|Peeters|year=2007|page=47|isbn=978-90-429-1877-1|passage=But while these forces of chance work both in organic and in inorganic nature, there is an additional principle in organic (living) nature: an organizing principle or entelechie.

6. In the metaphysics of (w) (384–322 (B.C.E)) and (w) (1646–1716): a soul; a monad (Leibniz).

7. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essaye), II.12:

''(w)'' (..) calleth it soul Entelechy, or perfection moving of it selfe (as cold an invention as any other) for he neither speaketh of the essence, nor of the beginning, nor of the soules nature; but onely noteth the effects of it (nb..).

8. (quote-book): A Philosophical Study of the Theology of Aristotle|location=London|publisher=Overlook|Gerald Duckworth and Company|year=2002|page=50|isbn=978-0-7156-3163-8|passage=Students of Aristotle are familiar with his thesis that soul is the form of the body. In the ''the Soul|De Anima'' Aristotle explains this further by claiming that the soul is the perfection or entelechia of the body (414a26).

9. (quote-book) A body belonging to a monas which is its entelechia or soul, comprises together with the entelechia what we call a living thing, and together with the soul what we call animal. 1714.

10. A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being; the need to actualize one's beliefs; having both a personal vision and the ability to actualize that vision from within.

11. (quote-book) first coined the term entelechy, and the great mystic Teilhard de Chardin|Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brought it to public attention. (..) The inner sense of purpose that is governed by the entelechy is the driving force behind our lives, helping us to blossom into the fullest expression of ourselves.

12. (quote-book) and especially David Coffey, who follows and develops Rahner's theology, point out that the Holy Spirit bears an entelechy toward the Son. An entelechy (as the term is used by Rahner and Coffey) is an internal force or principle that drives a being toward its destiny. When applied to the Holy Spirit it refers to the redemptive purpose that motivates and orients the work of the Holy Spirit in redemption. The philosophical term entelechy helps to express the theology of the biblical description of the Holy Spirit as "the Spirit of Christ."