By reference to the Preamble and Article 2 TEU, this may be construed as contributed to an «ever closer union amongst the peoples of Europe», and indeed it is
this telos which has informed the judicial statements synthesised above.
The unfolding of the British Empire revealed it's
telos which colonials found unsuitable.
This relates to
the telos which is inherent within physical feelings of complex value and which moves toward a generality usually associated with conceptual thought alone.
Not exact matches
This agreement does not extend to the metaphysical obligation to
which human decision is ethically bound, namely, conformity with the divine
telos.
Technical reason can never tell us about ends, and the public freedom we need is always related to that
telos that end in terms of
which society as a whole makes sense.
In contrast to some forms of rule - teleology, I understand indirect applications to mean that the comprehensive
telos justifies social practices, that is, institutions or patterns of coordination in
which the participating social actions can not be described independently of constitutive norms or principles that bind actors whatever the consequences (cf. Rawls, «Two Concepts»).
Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command,
which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine
telos or comprehensive purpose.
Thus, for instance, deciding ceases to be understandable except as a reduction to these microscopic subdecisions compensated by what I believe to be Hartshorne's general view of the entire process as a collection of particular processes
which are part of a general
telos manifesting God in process.
He argues that, for Calvin, all theological knowledge has the «practical
telos» of «whole human lives of genuine pietas,
which is to say, whole human lives of vibrant, graceful relationship with God.»
It holds that a principle or principles of human rights must be independent of any comprehensive
telos to
which all human activity ought to be directed, that is, a
telos defined by reality as such and, in that sense, metaphysical.
So, while he is decentralizing in one sense there is another sense in
which all things everywhere find their purpose, their
telos, in him.
So St. John can say in the Fourth Gospel, that Jesus, «having loved his own
which were in the world, loved them to the end» — the Greek word for «end» here is
telos and that is to say «unto the very limit», a limit
which in Jesus was to the point of death for those whom he loved.
That is, only human beings, it is claimed, can attempt to plan for the future and only they can try to develop a theory regarding their
telos, abilities
which lull some individuals into thinking that they can in fact perform these tasks unerringly.
The incarnate Word and the divine providence,
which guides creation toward this
telos, hold precedence in Maximus» manner of speaking of divine immanence in creation.
One may now return to the five theses mentioned earlier: that Hartshorne's ethics is teleological, having its
telos in experience, requiring distinctions among experiences,
which distinctions are based upon aesthetic and altruistic criteria.
A society of living occasions each of
which has such an aim exhibits telic behavior, and the
telos of each member is in large measure a function of its participation in the society.
But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this
which makes God the proper
telos for a creation in
which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process,
which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of free creatures.
As to the resemblance, this comes out manifestly on three points: (a) that God has, according to Christian, a «continuous though changing satisfaction,»
which is comparable to my «growing satisfaction» (IWM 409); (b) that God does not lose his subjective immediacy, and that such a perishing is not categorically obliged; and (c) that the finality of God should be seen as
telos and not as end.
It reposes immanently in itself, it has nothing without itself
which is its
telos, but is itself
telos for everything outside it, and when this has been incorporated by the ethical it can go no further.
By his act he overstepped the ethical entirely and possessed a higher
telos outside of it, in relation to
which he suspended the former.
If this be the highest thing that can be said of man and of his existence, then the ethical has the same character as man's eternal blessedness,
which to all eternity and at every instant is his
telos, since it would be a contradiction to say that this might be abandoned (i.e. teleologically suspended), inasmuch as this is no sooner suspended than it is forfeited, whereas in other cases what is suspended is not forfeited but is preserved precisely in that higher thing
which is its
telos.
(2) The judicial dicta in the cases deciding the ambit and scope of the status of EU citizenship and rights contained therein has established that the
telos of the positive law is to establish a fundamental and autonomous status of equality for all Member State nationals
which guarantees a set of political and economic rights implemented via secondary legislation;