Actually nothing can be said of being, so that's fine isn't it? Nevertheless something gives rise to thought, and since it is prior it is without telo...
I think it has utility as an aspiration, as in calling thought into action when required and resting it when not required; calming the chattering monk...
I am sure that is not what I am driving at. I am distinguishing that telos pertains to rationalisation and consciousness, but one's being, or (unconsc...
I mistakenly foreshortened the quote; the subsequent paragraph hits it: ". . . If I were to think and will, this perception of mine would cease, and a...
I think it can be more direct than passive volition, e.g. Potthapada Sutta "with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of consc...
In Dennis Schulting's Kant, Non-Conceptual Content, p. 85, he write about Kant's gedankenlose Anschauung: intuition without thought: "From the immedia...
I'm seeing telos as instrumental purposeness and teleology as the examination of purposes and reasons. That is fine in a world of thought and things, ...
Re: "Thomas Nagel has some really good descriptions of the ways in which reality seems to have fundamentally teleological aspects. For me, this hinges...
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