Sentence example with the word 'entelechy'

entelechy

Definition n. (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized

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The perfection of the form of a thing is its entelechy (ivr€AMXECa) in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, Í.   [Please select]

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God, Aristotle says, is eternally and necessarily Entelechy, absolute realisation.   [Please select]

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[326] _Life_ is an entelechy, not only abstractedly, as already shown (above, p.)   [Please select]

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The soul actualises the body, and becomes, as he said, its entelechy.   [Please select]

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But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms.   [Please select]

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Retaining the Aristotelian-Scholastic terminology, Leibnitz calls the active principle form, the passive matter, and makes the monad, since it is not, like God, _purus actus_ and pure form, consist of form (entelechy, soul) and matter.   [Please select]

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[332] And in the macrocosm, the visible and invisible world about us, the same conception holds: "The existence of God is an eternally perfect entelechy, a life everlasting."   [Please select]

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