finalities

Yet, there always remains a broad range of intelligible events, and the process is rational in that it reveals an order of evident correspondences and undeniable finalities: in the inorganic world, between microstructure and macrostructure; in the organic and animal world, between structure and function; and in the spiritual world, between knowledge of the truth and the aspiration to freedom.

ID/Evolution 2009

Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.

Archive 2008-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.

For Friends in Mourning (a Rare Personal Post) Mary Kate Hurley 2008

For me that is self-evident and denotes the obvious contradiction between intentionality (as a teleological standpoint and its extrinsic finalities) and consequentialness (as the most important moral standpoint).

Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Here the logic of the social reaches its limit – the point where it inverts its finalities and reaches its point of inertia and extermination, but at the same time approaches ecstasy.

Archive 2008-11-01 Lemon Hound 2008

Here the logic of the social reaches its limit – the point where it inverts its finalities and reaches its point of inertia and extermination, but at the same time approaches ecstasy.

Ryan Fitzpatrick reads Katie Degentesh Lemon Hound 2008

It's so hard to concentrate when I'm at a place I hold no respect for at all, I keep thinking of all the bills that need to be paid, I can't get that silly woman to call me about the wedding reception finalities ....

badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2006

It's manpower intensive because they have to follow every lead to its finalities.

CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2002 2002

Lucretius, a Roman poet whose philosophy to Santayana escaped both the irrational optimism of traditional idealism and the scientific finalities of raw materialism.

Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem" 1996

Page 185, Volume 2 learned the lesson of Darwinism will “forswear inquiry after absolute origins and absolute finalities in order to explore specific values and the specific conditions that generate them” (1910, p. 13).

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968