单词 | teleocracy |
释义 | teleocracyn.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > causes material cause1393 final cause1587 vera causa1831 teleocracy1882 whyness1896 1882 B. F. Cocker Student's Handbk. Philos.: Psychol. 181 Finality (Teleocracy). Formative activity governed by ultimate Purpose or End. 2. (A system of) government directed towards the pursuit of a specific goal or purpose. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] fellowshipa1400 society1548 borrow1581 combination1597 guild1630 sodality1633 associationa1658 band-society1742 organization1793 Assn.1859 soc.1890 teleocracy1921 org1936 1921 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 15 510 Tarde..has maintained that the two possible forms of political institutions are a teleocracy, or the sovereignty of desires, and an ideocracy, or the dominion of ideas. 1976 Polit. Theory 4 333 Like Oakeshott's teleocracy, Augustine's civitas terrena was united by a common, substantive purpose. 2003 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 97 452/2 Teleocracy demands that human acting and the meaning of experience be defined by a governing ‘end’ to which the self is made subject. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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