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)
So Plato, teaching that this likeness will come to the virtuous man with humility, somewhere interprets that saying:
the end of goods and evils“telos”1 mention
On Moral Ends (Latin)
what is the End, the uttermost, the ultimate, to which all our plans of living well and acting rightly are to be referred;
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.
Odysseus knew that his hour [ telos] was not yet come, but he gave ground and said to Sokos, "Wretch, you shall now surely die.
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:
The outcome [ telos] of death closed his eyes as he spoke.
On Moral Ends
The ultimate end or highest good to which all human action is referred, the central technical question of the work.
what is the End, the uttermost, the ultimate, to which all our plans of living well and acting rightly are to be referred;
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.
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.
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.
So Plato, teaching that this likeness will come to the virtuous man with humility, somewhere interprets that saying:
For they say that Anaxagoras of Clazomenae said that the end of life is contemplation and the freedom that comes from it;
And Metrodorus, in his work On the fact that the cause in ourselves toward happiness is greater than that from things, says: