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Faustian Phenomena: Teleology in Goethe's Interpretation of Plants and Animals
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1990J.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, 2006According 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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Hume on Force and Vivacity. A Teleological-Historical Interpretation
History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 2011Hume 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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A deontological interpretation of MacIntyre’s teleological theory
2018Alasdair 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
TaxesOne 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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Historical Background to the Interpretation of Aristotle's Teleology
2005Abstract 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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2014
Interpretation can briefly be defined as assignment and determination of real meanings of materials. According to Savigny the elements of interpretation are; grammatical, logical, historical and systematic elements. we can examine the purpose of the legislator and the law through teleological interpretation.
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Interpretation can briefly be defined as assignment and determination of real meanings of materials. According to Savigny the elements of interpretation are; grammatical, logical, historical and systematic elements. we can examine the purpose of the legislator and the law through teleological interpretation.
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THE TELEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONSTITUTION’S EFFICIENCY MEANINGS
Fiat Iustitia, 2014Surprisingly, the judicial research seems to have stopped with the approach of the interpretation methodology at the level of the legal norms in general, paying less attention to this field of law at the level of the norms contained in the supreme law in the hierarchy of the law system.
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[Interpretative method as a synthesis of explicative, teleologic and analogic models].
Acta psiquiatrica y psicologica de America latina, 1982To establish the basis of the interpretative method is congruous with finding a solid basis--epistemologically speaking--to the analytic theory. This basis would be the means to transform this theory into a real science with its necessary adecuation among method, act and object of knowledge.
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