单词 | panteleologism |
释义 | > as lemmaspanteleologism panteleologism n. [compare ancient Greek παντελής all-complete, absolute] Philosophy rare the theory that all phenomena have a final cause; (originally) spec. (in Lotze's metaphysics) the theory that all phenomena are caused by the activity of God. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 657/2 Lotze (1817–1881) elaborated a very different noumenal idealism, which perhaps we may express by the name ‘Panteleologism’, to express its conclusion that the known world beyond phenomena is neither absolute thought, nor unconscious will, nor the unconscious at all, but the activity of God. 1991 Jrnl. Philos. 88 655 The naturalist might..insist that value-free clay crystallites can be teleological, but this move leads to an implausible radical panteleologism. < as lemmas |
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