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Ends and Means. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization) is a book of essays written by Aldous Huxley. [1] Published in 1937, the book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on Thomas Merton in his autobiography ...
Telos (/ ˈtɛlɒs, ˈtiːlɒs /; [1] Ancient Greek: τέλος, romanized: télos, lit. 'end, purpose, goal') [2] is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of human art. Telos is the root of the modern term teleology, the study of purposiveness or of objects with a view to their aims ...
The end of the world or end times [2] is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism , and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults .
Philosophy. In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one ...
The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it is a way of evaluating motivations for action. It is best known in its original formulation: "Act only according to that ...
Q.E.D. or QED is an initialism of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "that which was to be demonstrated". Literally, it states "what was to be shown". [ 1 ] Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is ...
Yama, the god of death, is at the top of the outer rim. The outer rim shows the Twelve Nidānas doctrine. Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" [1][2] as well as "world," wherein the term connotes "cyclic change" [3] or, less formally, "running around in circles." Saṃsāra is referred to with terms ...
Enjambment. In poetry, enjambment (/ ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt / or / ɪnˈdʒæmmənt /; from the French enjamber) [1][2][3] is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; [4] the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. [5] Lines without enjambment are end-stopped. [6]