Meaning of entelechial | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to entelechy.

Examples

“And this process⟳ “would be ‘entelechial’ or ‘perfectionist’ in the ironic sense⟳ of the term, insofar as the sufferer was in effect striving to impose⟳ a ‘perfect’ form⟳ by using the key terms of his formative wound as a paradigm.””

“I am assuming that an entelechial "tendency" […] does exist⟳ for human beings – that human beings "tend⟳" to act in accordance with a purpose (or telos) which exists within the mind⟳ of the specific human taking the action. […] What would be more entelechial in the Burkean sense⟳ than a "single word" which reveals "an underlying pattern of experience⟳"?”

“Invoking Aristotelian intuition, we will characterize each being as projecting an "entelechial" design⟳. I want⟳ to say⟳ that the individualization of living beings – and only living beings manifest the characteristics of individualization – is a constructive process⟳ that follows a design⟳. This design⟳ is "entelechial" because it projects a line of articulations that the process⟳ follows from within.”

“[E]ntelechy, or the entelechial motive, is a function of language and is rooted in history, in a verbal action by a human agent in a specific sociopolitical scene. The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.”

“Just as an acorn has the telos or entelechial potential to become⟳ an oak, so do ideas contain⟳ the seeds of their own⟳ transformation. Follow⟳ the logical or poetic implications of even the noblest idea and you are likely to find⟳ it becoming "rotten with perfection." This is nicely illustrated in "Cat's Cradle [sic: Cat's in the Cradle]," a song written by Burke's grandson, Harry Chapin. It is a song, says Stan Lindsay (1998), about entelechial potential, about a father who has made the idea of career more important than family. But one need⟳ not make⟳ moral judgments in doing entelechial analysis.”

“Could we not say⟳ that life proceeds in tandem with intrinsic prompting and invigorating entelechial energies, on the one hand, and the operative functional generation of force⟳, on the other?”

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