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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
telos

"ultimate object or aim," 1904, from Greek telos "the end, fulfillment, completion" (see tele-).

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telos

n. The aim or goal

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Telos (philosophy)

A telos (from the Greek τέλος for "end", "purpose", or "goal") is an end or purpose, in a fairly constrained sense used by philosophers such as Aristotle. It is the root of the term " teleology," roughly the study of purposiveness, or the study of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions. Teleology figures centrally in Aristotle's biology and in his theory of causes. It is central to nearly all philosophical theories of history, such as those of Hegel and Marx. One running debate in contemporary philosophy of biology is to what extent teleological language (as in the "purposes" of various organs or life-processes) is unavoidable, or is simply a shorthand for ideas that can ultimately be spelled out nonteleologically. Philosophy of action also makes essential use of teleological vocabulary: on Davidson's account, an action is just something an agent does with an intention--that is, looking forward to some end to be achieved by the action.

In contrast to telos, techne is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective; however, the two methods are not mutually exclusive in principle. Telos, according to Robert Lexington, is the essence of productivity, whereas one may use telos to accomplish critical thought or behavior.

Telos

Telos is Greek for "purpose," "end," or "goal". It may refer to one of the following:

Telos (journal)

Telos is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in May 1968 to provide the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective. It sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction relevant for the United States. In order to avoid the high level of abstraction typical of Husserlian phenomenology, the journal began introducing the ideas of Western Marxism and of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

With the disintegration of the New Left and the gradual integration of what remained of the American Left within the Democratic Party, Telos became increasingly critical of the Left in general. It subsequently undertook a reevaluation of 20th century intellectual history, focusing primarily on forgotten and repressed authors and ideas, beginning with Carl Schmitt and American populism. Eventually the journal rejected the traditional divisions between Left and Right as a legitimating mechanism for new class domination and an occlusion of new, post-Fordist political conflicts. This led to a reevaluation of the primacy of culture and to efforts to understand the dynamics of cultural disintegration and reintegration as a precondition for the constitution of that autonomous individuality critical theory had always identified as the telos of Western civilization.

The journal is published by Telos Press Publishing and the editor-in-chief is Russell Berman ( Stanford University). It is affiliated with the Telos Institute, which hosts annual conferences of which the proceedings are often published in Telos.

Telos (Doctor Who)

Telos is a fictional planet from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is an arid and mountainous planet, with little sign of vegetation. Beneath its surface, however, are the legendary tombs of the Cybermen.

The planet was featured in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967) and Attack of the Cybermen (1985).

Telos (company)

Telos Corporation is an information technology (IT) consulting company located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company’s name is derived from the Greek word for “purpose” or “goal". Telos primarily serves government and enterprise clients, receiving a large number of its contracts from the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

TELOS (project management)

TELOS is an acronym in project management used to define five areas of feasibility that determine whether a project should run or not.

  1. T - Technical - Is the project technically possible?
  2. E - Economic - Can the project be afforded? Will it increase profit?
  3. L - Legal - Is the project legal?
  4. O - Operational - How will the current operations support the change?
  5. S - Scheduling - Can the project be done in time?
Telos (album)

Telos marks the first album from Forevermore. Solid State Records released the project on July 22, 2014. Forevermore worked with Jordan Furr on the production of this album.

Usage examples of "telos".

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

Driven by evolutionary telos to mutual understanding and mutual transcendence.

Our great good friend, our most beloved benefactor, the most trusted man on Telos - Xanatos!

He had schemed to involve Telos in a needless, destructive war with a neighboring planet.

They had barely been on Telos an hour, and already the situation had escalated out of control.

Their return to Telos had brought everything Andra had wanted for so long.

The citizens of Telos were horrified that they had been hoodwinked by greed.

A new patriotism had flared on Telos, one based on commitment and stewardship of the land they cherished and had almost lost forever.

He knew that in their different ways, they would work to restore Telos to the busy, peaceful, blooming world it had been.

Here is where a materialist telos is defined, founded on the action of singularities, a teleology that is a resultant of the res gestae and a figure of the machinic logic of the multitude.

This objection, however, does not present an insuperable obstacle, because the revolutionary past, and the contemporary cooperative productive capacities through which the anthropological characteristics of the multitude are continually transcribed and reformulated, cannot help revealing a telos, a material affirmation of liberation.

The mythology of languages of the multitude interprets the telos of an earthly city, torn away by the power of its own destiny from any belonging or subjection to a city of God, which has lost all honor and legitimacy.

The first aspect of the telos of the multitude has to do with the senses of language and communication.

A first aspect of the telos is posed when the apparatuses that link communication to modes of life are developed through the struggle of the multitude.

To every language and communicative network corresponds a system of machines, and the question of machines and their use allows us to recognize a second aspect of the telos of the multitude, which integrates the first and carries it further.