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entelechy
[ en-tel-uh-kee ]
noun
plural entelechies.
- a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
- (in vitalist philosophy) a vital agent or force directing growth and life.
entelechy
/ É›²Ôˈ³ÙÉ›±ôɪ°ìɪ /
noun
- (in the philosophy of Aristotle) actuality as opposed to potentiality
- (in the system of Leibnitz) the soul or principle of perfection of an object or person; a monad or basic constituent
- something that contains or realizes a final cause, esp the vital force thought to direct the life of an organism
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð²Ô·³Ù±ð·±ô±ð³¦³ó·¾±Â·²¹±ô [en-t, uh, -, lek, -ee-, uh, l], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of entelechy1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of entelechy1
C17: from Late Latin entelechia, from Greek entelekheia, from en- ² + telos goal, completion + ekhein to have
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Thus the entelechy of the body is the soul.
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Whence it appears that in the smallest particle of matter there is a world of creatures, living beings, animals, entelechies, souls.
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It is the gospel of work: our endeavour must be to realise our best self in deed and action; to strive until our personality attains, in Aristotle's word, its entelechy; its full development.
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The key-word of all is to him the “entelechy†of Aristotle.
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It was the entelechy of the human body.
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