English

Adverb

entelechially

1. (philosophy) In an entelechial manner.
   • 1952 August, Kenneth Burke, “A 'Dramatistic' View of 'Imitation'”, in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, volume 12, number 4, Urbana, Ill.: Department of English, University of Illinois, OCLC 3797216, page 236:

     One imitates entelechially, thereby attaining a universal, insofar as the individual is shown living up to the potentialities of its genus. […] And so, in sum, were the poem (for instance) to imitate a sailor universally, entelechially, it would have him represent to the full the potentialities of sailor as such: speaking nautical terms (even perhaps to the extent of applying nautical analogies to non-nautical matters), scrupulous in the performing of his duties at sea (yet revealing exactly the most relevant temptations to the dereliction of such duties), looking perhaps with a carnival eye upon his times in port, etc.

   • 1994, William H[owe] Rueckert, Encounters with Kenneth Burke, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-02054-4, page 174:

     In some fundamental way, it seems that the principles of logology and ecology (that is, the entelechies of each) are at odds with each other, for logology, logologic, and logocentricity, if unchecked by large eco-ethical concerns, and allowed to drive entelechially toward the perfection and completion of themselves in the symbolic realm, seem destined to destroy, or perhaps just deny, ecology, ecologic, and the natural world.

   • 1997, James A. Mackin, Jr., Community Over Chaos: An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, ISBN 978-0-585-20984-5, page 120:

     In a pragmatic approach, the telos does not guarantee its results entelechially. The telos itself is the product of semiosis and can be made concrete only when it is used to guide actions.

   • 1998, Stan A. Lindsay, Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's Concept of Entelechy, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, ISBN 978-0-7618-1168-8, page 145:

     [I]f future possibilities exist for the discipline of rhetoric, it must be conceded that, entelechially speaking, even the present state of the discipline of rhetoric existed entelechially prior to the naming of the discipline.

   • 2013, Michael David Levenstein, The End of Knowledge: A Discourse on the Unification of Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, ISBN 978-1-62894-022-0, pages 20–21:

     To behave reasonably is to exemplify the highest human ideals and discipline, for in doing so, one is entelechially exalting his fullest potential. But this is not achieved through the inhuman slavery to logic which defines automatons and whose absence distinguish man. No, it is done by the proper obedience to the manifold nature and constituent elements we possess and which define us.

Related terms

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