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title: "Telos Is Arche"
date: 2021-06-19T22:08:34Z
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topics: ["philosophy"]
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From {{< abstab title="Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition" url="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Friendship-Beauty-Good-Aristotle/dp/153264549X" >}} by Kevin Corrigan:

> *"...Just as teaching and learning involve two different subjects, but constitute a single activity (energeia) from different perspectives, so also what is an action or an external motive force from one viewpoint is a manifestation of the deepest reality from another viewpoint. The same activity involves two distinct subjects but is nonetheless a single activity seen from two different points of view. What is divine from one aspect may be quite human from another! At the same time, the Aristotelian scale of nature embodies a hierarchy of different developmental forms, the lower forms always requiring the higher forms for their fuller actualization and explanation. All lower forms, therefore, require the energy of higher-order forms to give them their meaning. God is not therefore an explanation or cause remote from worms, butterflies, hopes, and thoughts, but their ultimate and yet proper meaning present to them from the beginning. Their telos really is their archē."*

