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• March 1st, 2021

  There is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a Telos—or of a variety of ends or goals—towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present. *

• Gendlin and Alexander: #Draft 1

  In the domain of therapeutic introspection, Gendlin’s practice has a clear Telos in the health of the individual, the resolution of straining tensions, the ability to hear the body’s gestalt wisdom. The local health of the individual then expands into social health. Focusing becomes an aspect of dialogue and community.

• Gendlin and Alexander: #Draft 2

  The body has intentions and desires. In a broad and general sense, it wants to go somewhere. It wants to set things straight. It has a directionality, some rudimentary Telos, an urge to cohere, persist, and flourish. Therapy ought to assist this innate yearning rather than impose some external schema. We need to learn to listen to our own perceptions.

• 📰 MacIntyre on Money - Prospect Magazine

  MacIntyre’s key moral and political idea is that to be human is to be an Aristotelian goal-driven, social animal. Being good, according to Aristotle, consists in a creature (whether plant, animal, or human) acting according to its Nature—its Telos, or purpose. The Telos for human beings is to generate a communal life with others; and the good society is composed of many independent, self-reliant groups.

• 📙 After Virtue

  There is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a Telos—or of a variety of ends or goals—towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present.

• 📙 Crippled Grace

  As noted earlier, while Aristotle and the New Testament have very different views about the good life and virtue, they share a logical and conceptual structure that identifies virtue with the achievement of the human Telos (flourishing) and vice (sin) with its destruction.

• 📙 Hyperobjects

  The end of Teleology is the end of the world. This end is precisely not an instant vaporization, but rather a lingering coexistence with strange strangers. For the end of the world is the end of endings, the end of Telos, and the beginning of an uncertain, hesitating futurality.

• 📙 Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue

  Given the constraints of enlightenment thought, specifically its rejection of any fixed goal or Telos of human life, these three approaches seem to exhaust the possibilities, and all three have failed to justify the authority of moral rules over the lives of human agents.

  with the moral freedom to act on that judgment. With the rejection of the concept of a natural end or Telos for the human person, the virtues become indefinite, for they lose the criteria that had determined their meaning and content.