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Purpose or end: the frame through which the class compares Aristotle's social role ethic to Dante's more inwardly discovered purpose.
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telos
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "telios like have you just i missed yesterday afternoon so did you discuss the telios like everything has a specific purpose in life and..."
Key Notes
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Aristotelian purpose or destination of a life, which Jiang uses to explain why souls arrive in the world and how lives should be judged. A person's purpose or end, which Jiang says can only be discovered by listening inward rather than obeying outside authorities.
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Purpose or end; in Jiang’s reading, Aristotle’s way of directing individuals toward productive roles.
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Purpose; for Jiang's Aristotle, each thing seeks fulfillment through action.
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The student frames lust as mismeasured desire toward an otherwise proper reproductive telos, while homosexuality is presented as missing the reproductive telos altogether.
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Jiang says Dante would know Aristotelian telos but diverges from Aristotle by treating true purpose as something to be discovered inwardly rather than simply assigned by society's expectations.
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He distinguishes between society exploiting a person through an imposed telos and a person actually understanding and achieving a genuine telos.
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He explains innocent suffering through an occult framework in which each soul arrives with a telos, can be diverted from it by worldly conditioning, and reincarnates rather than ending at bodily death.
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He says human beings come with telos, and that only by listening to one's own heart can one discover and achieve that purpose.
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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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"telios like have you just i missed yesterday afternoon so did you discuss the telios like everything has a specific purpose in life and..."
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"not a act of lust and it's not a act of lust and it's not a act of lust and it's not a act..."
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"...the idea of telios and he would have the idea of telos is purpose right you come here for purpose and you achieve happiness..."
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"that's your telos but what donnie would say no no no you trust your intuition right if your telos is like i just want..."
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"...here for a particular reason uh we have a purpose a telos as aristotle says and this telos will define our life and um..."
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"...arrive we are bombarded by information that blinds us from our telos we call this school right you go to school in order to..."
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"...Again, I keep on saying this, but we come here with telos. And what's important is that we achieve our telos, our purpose, because..."
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"Because only you, yourself, know what your telos is. I know what my telos is, but I don't know what your telos is, so..."
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"...as long as you just achieve and fulfill your purpose, your telos, as Aristotle says, you'll be happy."
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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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"...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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