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Purpose or end; in Jiang’s reading, Aristotle’s way of directing individuals toward productive roles.
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telos
Purpose or end; in Jiang’s reading, Aristotle’s way of directing individuals toward productive roles.
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Glossary
Purpose; for Jiang's Aristotle, each thing seeks fulfillment through action.
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Purpose; in Jiang's Aristotle, a thing is good when it moves toward its telos.
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He frames Aristotle’s philosophy as empire knowledge: material cause-and-effect plus telos makes individuals work hard and produce energy for empire.
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Jiang defines telos as purpose and links Aristotelian purpose to action, empirical observation, and the birth of science.
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Jiang presents Aristotle's world as motion and change caused by a prime mover, where good means a changing thing moving toward its purpose or telos.
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Jiang argues that Aristotle's prime mover, telos, arete, and eudaimonia make more political sense for kings because work, soldiering, and conquest can be framed as fulfilling purpose and making the world better.
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"...the end. What is the end? The end is something called telos. Telos. Okay? Purpose. Okay? And what this means is that we're all..."
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"Okay? So what do I mean by that? All right. So we discussed Plato. We discussed how for Plato what matters is the spirit,..."
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"as hard as possible to make as much money as possible because that energy then can be sucked up by the empire. Okay? If..."
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"...Where we're going is we are seeking truth. And it's called telos."
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"Telos means purpose. So each of us by our nature has a purpose. If you're a soldier your purpose is to be the best..."
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"...towards its purpose, okay? Or the word he uses is called telos. Telos. Okay? If you're moving towards your purpose, you are doing good..."
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"Okay? If you're moving away from your purpose, you're doing bad in this world. Okay? So the example is a soldier. The purpose of..."
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"You're Alexander. You go to Plato and he says, I want to conquer the world. Right? Plato would say, what's the point? It's all..."
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"Now, if you're Alexander or Philip, this makes more sense. I'm Philip. My purpose is to unite the Greek world. And the more I..."
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"...Christians understood that history was theological. Theological comes from the Greek telos, which means purpose. So history is moving towards the end, which is..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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