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单词 entelechy
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entelechyn.

Brit. /ɛnˈtɛləki/, /ᵻnˈtɛləki/, U.S. /ənˈtɛləki/, /ɛnˈtɛləki/
Forms: Also 1600s entelechie, entelech; 1500s in Greek form entelecheia; 1600s–1800s in Latin entelechia.
Etymology: < Greek ἐντελέχεια, < ἐν + τέλει, dative of τέλος perfection + ἔχειν to have.
Philosophy.
1. In Aristotle's use: The realization or complete expression of some function; the condition in which a potentiality has become an actuality.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > [noun]
wombeOE
moodeOE
heartOE
inner manc1000
soulOE
ghostOE
sprite1340
inwit1382
consciencec1384
spiritc1384
minda1387
spirtc1415
esperite1477
inward man1526
pneuma1559
esprite1591
internala1594
interior1600
entelechy1603
inside1615
psyche1648
sprit1653
citta1853
undersoul1868
Geist1871
heart-mind1959
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > vital part or vitalizing influence
pitheOE
sap1526
quicka1566
lifeblood1582
heartstring1584
entelechy1603
heart1603
heart-blood1606
heart and soul1616
heart's-blooda1631
life's bloodc1635
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of
material cause1393
matterc1395
matter subjecta1398
predicamenta1425
quality?1537
first substance1551
predicable1551
property1551
proprium1551
transcendent1581
final cause1587
category1588
habit1588
ante-predicament?1596
postpredicament1599
entelechy1603
transumption1628
secondary1656
objective cause1668
transcendental1668
general substance1697
third man1801
thought-form1834
posterioristic universal1902
ousia1917
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 314 Aristotle..calleth [the soul] Entelechy, or perfection mooving of it selfe.
1652 J. Smith Select Disc. x. 500 Wickedness is the form and entelech of all the wicked spirits.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 69 The soul is the first entelechie of a naturall organicall body, having life potentially.
1837 W. Whewell tr. Aristotle in Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 57 The Entelechy, or act, of a moveable body.
1842 Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. I. 202/2 (note) Aristotle defines the soul, the Form or Entelechy of an organized body.
1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 194 Motion is the entelechy (the perfecting power or principle) of the potential as potential.
2. In various applied senses (apparently due to misconceptions of Aristotle's meaning): (a) that which gives perfection to anything; the informing spirit; (b) the soul itself, as opposed to the body.
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1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 5 When his Holiness the King of Spaine and Parsons theyr Entelechie were plotting beyond the seas.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. viii. 107 He seems to make it [sc. the soul] nothing else..but an Entelechia or Informative thing.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 112 The purest parts of the separated entelechies of blessed Saints.
1659 J. Shirley Honoria & Mammon i. i Soul..that bright entelecheia Which separates them from beasts.
3. The name given by Leibniz to the monads of his system.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > monism > monadism > elements of
monad1692
entelechy1877
Leibniz law1941
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. v. 92 It is better to give the general name of monads or entelechies to those simple substances that have only perception.
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