Meaning of endwork | Babel Free

Definitions

Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal

Examples

“The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels.”

“The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily.”

“This is most explicit in his essay “What is Metaphysics?” in which the metaphysical tradition is shown as culminating in “Nothing,” which is the “end-point of tradition, ”thus marking the “metaphysical endwork of traditional metaphysics” or tradition's terminus point, after which it passes into another beginning.”

“The 'opposition' is surely right to speak of 'end-works' in this connection – if only its own products were not so hopelessly unengaging and devoid of comedy.”

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