单词 | entelechy |
释义 | entelechyn. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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