In general, belief in or appeal to explanation in terms of ends or purposes.
As an ethical doctrine teleology claims that our duties are specifiable in terms of the production of some value.
Teleology is perhaps rather wider than consequentialism as it includes such views as that an act is our duty if doing it will promote our own virtue.
Also see: deontology
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 On Purpose
- 2.2 Teleology: A History (OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS SERIES)
- 2.3 The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
- 2.4 Teleology [Explicit]
- 2.5 Teleology
- 2.6 Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
- 2.7 Aristotle on Teleology (Oxford Aristotle Studies) (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series)
- 2.8 Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine
- 2.9 Teleology and the Norms of Nature
- 2.10 Teleology
Videos
On Purpose
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Ruse, Michael (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 305 Pages - 10/31/2017 (Publication Date) - Princeton University Press (Publisher)
Teleology: A History (OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS SERIES)
- Hardcover Book
- McDonough, Jeffrey K. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 320 Pages - 05/25/2020 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Davies, Paul (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 340 Pages - 04/29/2008 (Publication Date) - Mariner Books (Publisher)
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Teleology
- Audio CD – Audiobook
- 3D (Publisher)
Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
- Okrent, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 248 Pages - 12/10/2019 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Aristotle on Teleology (Oxford Aristotle Studies) (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series)
- Johnson, Monte Ransome (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 03/20/2008 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press, USA (Publisher)
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine
- Grethlein, Jonas (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 434 Pages - 05/28/2020 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Teleology and the Norms of Nature
- FitzPatrick, William J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 402 Pages - 12/12/2011 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
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