telos
idea · 3 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
outcome · completion [telos] · eudaimonia · fulfillment · happiness · hour · the End · the end · the last and uttermost of goods · the time-limit
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe end of life / happiness“telos”1 mention
Stromata (Greek)
and the restoration, through the Son, to the perfect adoption, which ever glorifies the Father through the great High Priest, who deigned to call us brothers and joint-heirs.
the end of goods and evils“telos”1 mention
On Moral Ends (Latin)
And since this is either the highest or the last or the uttermost of goods — what the Greeks call telos — which itself is referred to nothing else, but to which all things are referred, it must be confessed that the highest good is to live pleasantly.
in the texts
Iliad
The Greek concept of an appointed end or outcome, explicitly glossed as 'telos' in connection with the fated death of warriors.
He fell heavily to the ground and Odysseus vaunted over him saying, "O Sokos, son of Hippasus tamer of horses, the outcome [ telos] of death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him:
Odysseus knew that his hour [ telos] was not yet come, but he gave ground and said to Sokos, "Wretch, you shall now surely die.
the outcome [ telos] of battle is in the force of hands, while the outcome of deliberation is words;
On Moral Ends
The ultimate end or highest good to which all human action is referred, the central technical question of the work.
And since this is either the highest or the last or the uttermost of goods — what the Greeks call telos — which itself is referred to nothing else, but to which all things are referred, it must be confessed that the highest good is to live pleasantly.
We are inquiring, then, what is the last and uttermost of goods, which in the opinion of all philosophers must be such that everything ought to be referred to it, but it itself to nothing else.
As for me, I think this whole inquiry concerning the ends of goods and evils has been pretty fully set forth by me in these volumes, in which, so far as I could, I have followed out not only what I myself approve, but also what is said by each of the schools of philosophy.
Stromata
The central philosophical question of what constitutes the highest good or goal of life, surveyed across many schools before being answered in Christian terms.
and the restoration, through the Son, to the perfect adoption, which ever glorifies the Father through the great High Priest, who deigned to call us brothers and joint-heirs.
And Plato himself says that happiness is "to have the daimon well" (eu ton daimona echein), and that the governing part of our soul is called daimon, and that happiness is the most perfect and fullest good.
" And Speusippus, the nephew of Plato, says that happiness is a perfect state in those who are according to nature, or a state of goods, of which condition all men have appetite, but the good aim at freedom from disturbance.