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The Reinstatement of Teleology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

John E. Boodin
John E. Boodin
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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The question about the whence and whither of the drift of our cosmic weather is an old one and cannot be lightly brushed aside. It is both a forced and a momentous issue. It is a forced issue, because we cannot help taking an attitude towards it, whether we make it explicit to ourselves or not. It is momentous, because such an attitude is a serious index of our deepest practical faith as regards the value of life, and cannot help determining our conduct. There have been three distinct types of theory in the past as regards this drift—Mechanism, Finalism, and Vitalism.

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Research Article
Information
Harvard Theological Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1913 , pp. 76 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1913

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References

1 See Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Method, VII, 321.