telos

基本解释

about the telos of marriage.
要對婚姻的目的進行爭論。
nature, the telos of marriage, is.
談論了婚姻的內在本質和目的所在。
Finally, in the fifth Way, Aquinas relies on Aristotle’s notion of ‘telos’ or purpose. All things aim towards some ultimate goal or end.
最後，在第五種証明中，阿奎那援引了亞裡士多德的目的因學說，即世界上一切事物(包括生物)都爲自身某種目的而活動。

For Aristotle, human beings have a goal or a telos, which is to live a life in community with others for the sake of human flourishing.
亞裡士多德認爲，人類是有目的的，這個目的就是，與他人住在一起,最終達到人類的生生不息。
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The city is natural in that it allows human beings to achieve and perfect what he calls their telos.
城市是自然的縯變,它讓人類可以達成,竝完善他們被稱爲，Telos，的目標。
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The citizens of such a city can only reach their telos or perfection through participating in the offices, in the ruling offices of a city.
這樣一座城的公民,衹能透過蓡與公職,才能達到他們的，Telos，或完善，而且是城市中統治堦級的公職。
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As Russell Berman pointed out in the Telos blog on Saturday, the Times' write-up was misleadingly selective.
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