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Teleological Interpretation of the Cosmological Timeline

2017
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The difference between literary and teleological approaches in the interpretation of laws

Comparative Studies in Jurisprudence, Law, and Politics, 2023
In general, every legal rule needs to be interpreted at the point of implementation, and this is the fact that these rules have different interpretations due to reasons such as brevity and ambiguity. The constitution is not excluded from this general principle, but due to its generality, generality and relative difficulty of its revision and revision ...
Javad Saadounzadeh, Mansour Atashaneh, Sadegh Alboghbish   +2 more
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Contesting Teleology as Literary Interpretation

Research in African Literatures, 2017
While the intellectual genealogy of "secularization" can be approached from any number of directions, this article rehearses the debate between Karl Lowith and Hans Blumenberg. While it makes no effort to reconcile their positions, it argues that both were troubled by the persistence of theological structures and tropes in ostensibly secular paradigms.
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Faustian Phenomena: Teleology in Goethe's Interpretation of Plants and Animals

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1990
J.W. von Goethe was a daring and wide-ranging biologist as well as a great playwright. His work was a whole: for him, theory and theatre were both based on keen observation of life. Even 'Faustian' striving, the blind upward urge of life, can be found in significant details of organisms and their evolution, according to Goethe. Such observations cannot
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Kant on biological teleology: Towards a two-level interpretation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2006
According to Kant's Critique of the power of judgment, teleological considerations are unavoidable for conceptualizing organisms. Does this mean that teleology is more than merely heuristic? Kant stresses the regulative status of teleological attributions, but sometimes he seems to treat teleology as a constitutive condition for biology.
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A deontological interpretation of MacIntyre’s teleological theory

2018
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Aristotelianism aims at the good of the agent, and is considered to give priority to the good over the right. Hence, this account of morality is taken as contrary to act-based deontology. In this paper, however, it is argued that MacIntyre’s distinction between the internal and external goods of practices places him close to ...
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Teleological Interpretation in Tax Law

Taxes
One of the most important types of legal interpretation is teleological (purposeful) interpretation. This article focuses on the peculiarities of this type of interpretation of tax legal norms, which is actively used by participants in tax legal relations and Russians courts.
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Hume on Force and Vivacity. A Teleological-Historical Interpretation

History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 2011
Hume seems to have discarded with final causes and teleology. However, his invocation of a pre-established harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas suggests otherwise. This paper takes Hume’s general strategy of shifting to the external perspective into account, and argues that the seemingly internal property of force and ...
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Historical Background to the Interpretation of Aristotle's Teleology

2005
Abstract According to the standard history, Aristotelian teleology and final causes were discarded in the scientific revolution in favor of the mechanical philosophy. In fact, the term teleology was invented in the eighteenth century to designate the search for evidence of god in purposes, goals, intelligence, and design manifest in ...
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Teleological Interpretation by International Economic Organizations

Journal of World Trade
Teleological interpretation is a legally sound approach to empower an international economic organization to grow and develop, as it responds and adapts itself to ever-changing circumstances. The method is consistent with customary rules of interpretation of public international law, whilst being distinct from law-making.
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