Teleology

... if the goal of humanity be still lacking, is there not humanity itself lacking? [Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathurstra XV, c. 1883]We are confronted here with a movement that, in its deconstructive involutions, describes teleology as an effect of recursivity (the “strange attractor” phenomenon) or decoherence (or e.g. spontaneous wave-function collapse in the quantum field), rather than of any kind of latent purposiveness. A teleology, in other words, of random or pseudo-random events, whose “transcendentailism” is nothing but a vectoral rate-of-change, an acceleration. -- alienistmanifesto.wordpress.comSee: Purpose.
Nick Land spoke of teleological subordination in his interview (jl18) with Justin Murphy, 
Salient authors: Aristotle; Aquinas.
Category:Philosophy