... that it brings together the two sides of humanity, the light and the dark, into one coherent picture, and also emphasizes the importance of ontology. The chapter ends by considering the book as a work of retrieval of the reality of a natural human good and a real human telos...

...This chapter develops personalism on the question of the purpose of human life, which the author argues is human flourishing. The six basic goods mentioned in chapter 5 are here said to serve this larger purpose of human life, this telos. The happiness and flourishing can also...

... environments, to identify which goods are by nature basic to human life, to develop a teleological account of human flourishing that defines objective human interests, and to understand how the natural human telos of flourishing can be compromised and destroyed by failure, destruction, and evil. It is guided...

... contemporary biologists or historians and philosophers of science, the author holds that Darwin did concern himself with the idea of progress, or telos, as he constructed his theory. He maintains that Darwin drew on the traditional embryological meanings of the terms “evolution” and “descent with modification...

... Liu An Pascal Blaise Plato political the Taoism Aristotle beginning Anfang creative power Gestalten government human beings creation through action existence freedom society action movement freedom aim (telos) creation Human beings are always doing something. They are active beings...