Teleological processes of planned change break down because participants do not recognize the need for change, they make erroneous decisions, or they do not reach agreement on goals or actions” (Burke ...
Are There Any Instincts?
Personally, I am inclined to favor the belief that a social psychology may be developed. In such a science, teleological methods may legitimately be employed, if properly labeled, just as ...
Chapter 1.
Explanatory research is the most demanding kind of research, and it requires the use of special methods to identify causes and effects. (p.4) 5. Compare and contrast causal explanation, rule-based ...
Analogical Teleological Argument
McCloskey reasons against the theistic beliefs of the cosmological argument, the teleological argument and design. He references the presence of evil in a world created by God and the absurdity of ...
CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT
Of the union of the principle of the universal mechanism of matter with the teleological principle in the Technic of nature 326 Appendix.—Methodology of the Teleological Judgement 334 § 79. Whether ...
German translation of 'teleological'
Some disciplines, in particular within evolutionary biology, continue to use language that appears teleological when they describe natural tendencies towards certain end conditions. Teleological truth ...
Classical Apologetics in Evangelism
The teleological argument attempts to prove that a designer must ... This school is called the “classical” method because the most prominent apologists of earlier centuries used this method. Other ...
Review of Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling by H.M. Stanley
We can only bow to the fact. The ultimate contradiction in Mr. Stanley's method, here as elsewhere, is giving a teleological function to psychical values having only a purely blind origin. The ...
Skeptical Approach to Religion
It should be made perfectly clear at the outset that, in dealing with religion from the sceptical point of view, I am not assuming the impossibility or invalidity of other methods of approach ... is ...
Agents of Change: Political Philosophy in Practice
On the teleological conception, the theory of justice is practical ... Like the ouroboros, this book on method ends by circling back to reflect on how methodologically to understand the claims about ...
Military procurement and national security
On top of this, the systematic, functional and teleological interpretation methods will be used that are decisive in the interpretation of EU-law by the EU Court of Justice. This is of fundamental ...
Fear and Trembling
Abraham is therefore either a murderer, or a hero of Faith. The detailed exposition elucidates Abraham's situation dialectically and lyrically, bringing out as problemata the teleological suspension ...