Presumption of lawful acquirement of property and confiscation of unlawfully acquired property in the case-law of the Romanian Constitutional Court. The reference constitutional... by Marieta SAFTA

“…This study examines - from a dual perspective - historical and teleological, the constitutional provisions that enshrine the presumption of lawful acquirement of assets, including the development and interpretation thereof in the case-law of the Constitutional Court, in order to create a framework for analysis of Law no. 63/2012 amending and supplementing the Criminal Code and Law no. 286/2009 on the Criminal Code, a law that establishes the measure of extended confiscation, expression of international regulatory concerns in this area.…”
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Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] by Daniel Nabil Maroun

“…Drawing on a retranslation of Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre, I suggest that retranslation reinforces queer subjectivity because both avoid teleological outcomes of their processes while reexamining how Dustan illustrates his existence in relation to his disease.…”
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The logic of leverage: Reflections on post-foundational political economy by Martijn Konings

“…It engages the question of how political economy should position itself vis-à-vis concerns about the dangers of essentialism and teleological explanation. It argues that a proper theorization of the logic of ‘leverage’ is key to the development of a political economy that appropriates the insights of post-foundational theory but is still able to account for the reality of power and inequality.…”
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Perspectives in Anthropology, Feminism, and Gender for the Histories of Techniques and Technology: Interview with Francesca Bray by Francesca Bray, Nicole Cristi

“…In this interview, Bray discusses the possibilities offered by a situated approach to the history (or histories) of techniques and technology in order to challenge hegemonic Eurocentric teleologies that surround it. From her research on Imperial China, Bray explains how an interwoven approach mixing gender studies, feminism, and an anthropological point of view could contribute analytically and methodologically to the History of Technology, in order to expand its margins beyond its recurring modern and binary tales. …”
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Perspectives in Anthropology, Feminism, and Gender for the Histories of Techniques and Technology: Interview with Francesca Bray by Francesca Bray, Nicole Cristi

“…In this interview, Bray discusses the possibilities offered by a situated approach to the history (or histories) of techniques and technology in order to challenge hegemonic Eurocentric teleologies that surround it. From her research on Imperial China, Bray explains how an interwoven approach mixing gender studies, feminism, and an anthropological point of view could contribute analytically and methodologically to the History of Technology, in order to expand its margins beyond its recurring modern and binary tales. …”
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Perspectives in Anthropology, Feminism, and Gender for the Histories of Techniques and Technology: Interview with Francesca Bray by Francesca Bray, Nicole Cristi

“…In this interview, Bray discusses the possibilities offered by a situated approach to the history (or histories) of techniques and technology in order to challenge hegemonic Eurocentric teleologies that surround it. From her research on Imperial China, Bray explains how an interwoven approach mixing gender studies, feminism, and an anthropological point of view could contribute analytically and methodologically to the History of Technology, in order to expand its margins beyond its recurring modern and binary tales. …”
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KONSTRUKSI TEORI PARADIGMA THOMAS S. KUHN by Nurkhalis Nurkhalis

“…Formulasi teori paradigma yang mencetuskan bahwa sebuah kebenaran sains (legatimed truth) identik dalam target teleologis yang didasari pada detection dikenal sebagai final cause (end). …”
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Legal Proceedings in Digital Rights in Independent Procedural System by V. A. Mayboroda, E. T. Mayboroda

“…Using the teleological method, the intended purpose of regulating the circulation of digital rights was identified. …”
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A novel of de-formation: Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God as a postmodern Gothic parody of the Bildungsroman by Mona Jafari, Maryam Soltan Beyad, Zohreh Ramin

“…As a literary tradition intimately intertwined with the teleological discourse of humanism, the Bildungsroman or the novel of formation can provide an optimal point of departure for participation in the contemporary debate on human subjectivity. …”
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Creationism - a Pseudoscience or Pseudoreligion by Sergei A. Lokhov, Dmitrii V. Mamchenkov

“…As such, the following are distinguished and analyzed: biblical creationism, scientific creationism, theological evolutionism, teleological creationism, alterism, missionary creationism. …”
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Transformative Impetus: A Look at Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. by Genevieve Sartor

“…Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts (1941) works against the grain of understanding human subjectivity and its relationship with environment as mechanistic, primarily anthropocentric or teleological. It puts forth worlds that crisscross boundaries between nature and culture, the human and the animal. …”
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Eikos logos-eikos mythos: un logos como representación del mundo by Jorge Cano

“…In addition to operating as an epistemological vehicle, Timaios' eikos logos is also a manifestation of an original conception of mimesis and of a deep consideration of the world as a teleological event and of the physis as an order. The problem with the physical logos is closely linked, on the one hand, with the truth of the sensible world itself and, on the other hand, with the mechanisms of sensation and the truth within them. …”
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Readings in philosophy of religion : ancient to contemporary / by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946-, Miller, Timothy, 1944-

Secularity and sacredness in contemporary musical creation: tensions and transactions by Alfredo Teixeira

“…After a period in which secularization was undertaken as a – linear and teleological – hegemonic explanatory model in the social sciences, it became necessary to find, in the context of multiple modernities, other ways of access to the places of religious’ reconfiguration. …”
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Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty by Vera Fravventura

“…In this section, I will briefly touch on some of the key-points of Witt’s interpretative paradigm, which entails some specific (albeit not always explicit) conceptualization of notions such as ‘literature’, ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, as well as an implicit focus on Renaissance humanism as the final cause of a coherent teleological pattern…”
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Value-Based Reasoning in Autonomous Agents by Tomasz Zurek, Michail Mokkas

“…In this paper we propose to extend the existing model of value-based teleological reasoning by a new, numerical manner of representation of the level of value promotion. …”
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Le temps chez les historiens: un impensé? [Historians’ Time: Something Unthought?] by François Dosse

“…Psychoanalysis can make its contribution to the historian in this respect so that he abandons his teleological illusions and takes into account the heterochrony inherent in a fundamentally layered temporality of different strata, which is not linear in any way.…”
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Is simplicity that simple? an assessment of Richard Swinburne’s argument from cosmic fine-tuning by Qureshi-Hurst, E

“…The teleological argument has received a resurgence in recent years. …”

Education and the sacred: Judaic holiness and the dynamics of teaching and learning by Calvert, I

“…They outline methodological, experiential, teleological, relational, environmental, structural and theological dimensions of the sacred in Jewish educative practice. …”

Roscoe Pound e la concezione teleologica del diritto: tra giuridicità e metagiuridicità by Rosaria Pirosa

“…This paper intends to delve into Roscoe Pound’s thought, enhancing his teleological conception of law as a key to understanding Pound’s historicism, pragmatism and functionalism. …”
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