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These drives are normal and healthy in most people, but become pathological in the absence of a clear “fictive goal” and “guiding fiction,” or more generally a clear “fictional finalism.”

Individual Psychology versus Existential Psychology: A Typology Approach William Harryman 2009

Many of those laws seek finalism in the the crucifixion of the prophetic, with a baffling success rate in selling the most unintelligent, unforgiving members of our society.

Distributive Justice: Barack Obama, Bush and Luke 6: 42 2009

Spinoza neither perceives the particular difficulties for Cartesian physical theory that lead Leibniz to revive both finalism and substantial forms, nor foresees the Newtonian theory of universal gravitation whose mathematical and empirical superiority to the Cartesian vortex theory lead to its universal acceptance, despite its own revival of occult powers in the form of forces operating at a distance.

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

Yet in spite of its express mechanistic and deterministic character, Spinoza's physical theory appears to exploit an irreducible element of finalism, and to accord an important explanatory role to individual bodily essences.

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

Moreover, we can connect the afterlife with evolution without subscribing to finalism, the belief that evolution is ruled by a definite, unswerving plan.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Moreover, we can connect the afterlife with evolution without subscribing to finalism, the belief that evolution is ruled by a definite, unswerving plan.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Moreover, we can connect the afterlife with evolution without subscribing to finalism, the belief that evolution is ruled by a definite, unswerving plan.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

The analysis of the main report at the congress, which will close today, raised the problem of finalism among students and the lack of rigorousness in the education of future professionals.

3RD CONGRESS OF THE FEU 1987

We must oppose every manifestation of finalism and superficiality.

OPENING OF THE 1980-82 SCHOOL TERM 1980

Peirce's tychism — radical determinism as well as radi - cal finalism virtually and sometimes even explicitly eliminate time altogether in fusing the successive phases into a single instantaneous unity of the

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968