Definition of Entelechies

1. entelechy [n] - See also: entelechy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entelechies

entanglers
entangles
entangling
entanglon
entases
entasia
entasias
entasis
entastic
entatic
entayle
entayled
entayles
entayling
entecavir
entelechies (current term)
entelechy
entelligent
entellus
entelluses
entelodont
entend
entended
entender
entenders
entending
entends
entent
entente
entente cordiale

Literary usage of Entelechies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science and Philosophy of the Organism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered by Hans Driesch (1908)
"And first let us remark once more that different kinds of entelechies ... In fact, we may speak of an order concerning the rank or dignity of entelechies, ..."

2. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"Now these entelechies, immanent and transcendent, what are they but Plato's system of Ideas and the Idea of the Good — all the ..."

3. The Fitness of the Environment: An Inquiry Into the Biological Significance by Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1913)
"Has not modern vitalism in accepting the limitation to entelechies or impetus destroyed itself ? The situation, briefly, seems to be as follows : two ..."

4. A Realistic Universe: An Introd. to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"Now these entelechies, while figuring in the process, are not on the one hand psychological entities, nor on the other are they energies. ..."

5. Collected Reprints by Otto Charles Glaser (1904)
"But all entelechies have originated from the primordial one and in this ... Now the primordial entelechy of the egg not only creates derived entelechies, ..."

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