Sublime

telos

telos

If we drop the “-ology” and just stick with “telos,” we can get back to its first and original meaning (formulated by Aristotle): “that for the sake of which.”6 I go to the store to buy bread and milk. Not because I was pulled by a vision of the betterment of mankind; not because of a defined philosophy that governs all actions, including why I

That life seems to have a purpose, a motivation for change and improvement, was first elucidated by Aristotle, who created the term “teleology”. This is derived from the Greek word telos, meaning “goal” or “end”.