telos
noun/ˈtiː.lɒs/
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλος (télos).
- borrowed from τέλος
Definitions
The aim, purpose, or end goal.
- But confusion persists because of the more contentious issue between the technos and the telos of music and art making in general, the instruments versus the purposes to which they are put, the means and the ends.
- the collapsing of bios and technos into each other is not only politically naive, producing a completely reified grand narrative of technology as the true agent and telos of natural and (in)human history
- In Lewis' view, such societies are cut off from an appreciation of the past, committed to the utopian ideal of unlimited progress, self-satisfied, concerned with technos rather than telos, and skeptical about reason.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for telos. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA