And he already showed his hand in his praise for the entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
The assumption of an extra-physical vis vitalis (vital force, entelechy, élan vital, etc.), as. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Aristotle's entelechy reveals that an initial dynamic push produces material order when put into action. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
Here form means the conceptual essence of an object; another Aristotelian name for this form is “entelechy.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Page 618, Volume 2 entelechy shares a fatal defect with Lamarck's evolu - tionary inheritance of acquired characters. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Here Leibniz is right, Kant thinks, and praises him for having shed light on the Aristotelian concept of the entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
Borrowing a term from Aristotle, Burke referred to it as a manifestation of entelechy — the tendency of a potential to realize itself. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
As a result, “form” acquired another metaphysical meaning, which never achieved the same currency as form D, entelechy, in aesthetics. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is true that certain distinguished scientists still defend it, enamoured, one would say, of the possibility of applying the entelechy of. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1920 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The soul, Aristotle defines as the first entelechy of the body. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
State, Justice writ large in, 147; classes in, 169; an entelechy, 196. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
The soul actualises the body, and becomes, as he said, its entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
Leibniz speaks of primary matter and of substantial form, or entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
It is the entelechy of the living individual, be he typical or singular. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Aristotelian notion of entelechy as a constitutive principle of the living being. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
This first entelechy is what we should call life, since it is possessed by a man asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
Form is the actual, the energy, the entelechy which actualises the potential and determines the final compound. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
The French I know but do not use is in its first entelechy; the French I am actually speaking is in its second. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
Mental activity has a character altogether alien to association: it is spiritual, not mechanical; an entelechy, not a genesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
This ideal of perfection varies, indeed, but only with the variations of our nature of which it is the counterpart and entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
187; an entelechy, 188; Epicurean theory of, 221; Stoic theory of, 233. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
185; an entelechy, 190; different kinds of, 194; Aristotle's definition, 203. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
121; can never exhaust Subject, 188; an entelechy, 192; potential and actual, 194. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
Thought the entelechy of being. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
The opposition entelechy. From Wordnik.com. [12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006] Reference
169; three stages, 170; an entelechy, 191. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
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