History of hysteria: Ilza Veith’s legacy by Eder Schmidt, Richard Theisen Simanke

“…Praised at first as an innovative work, unprecedented in its comprehensiveness and scholarship, it became, over time, object of multiple criticisms regarding its omissions, its psychoanalytic bias, and the teleological character of its approach. This article aims at pondering these contrasting assessments and discussing the historical significance of Veith’s work from a contemporary perspective. …”
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Last writing: script obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica by Stephen Houston, John Baines, Jerrold Cooper

“…In part, the first writing attracts attention because it contributes to a teleological narrative of progress(Trigger 1998: 42). …”

‘Form’ in conceptualizing copyright as a property right by Mysoor, P

“…While scholars acknowledge that this requirement exists, its teleological significance is not appreciated. This article argues that the need for record is a fundamental requirement in conceptualising copyright as a property right, which gives the content of copyright subject matter a form, demarcating its boundaries and triggering property protection. …”

Science towards cultural memory – (about) alchemy discourse(s) by Artur Rejter

“…The discourse(s) on alchemy and its very status in the universe of communication confirm the dynamics of science and the discourses belonging to or co-constituting it, but in no way do they confirm the thesis of the teleological (in the sense of improving development) history of communication, including scientific communication.…”
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Heading South in Search of Female Development by Minjeong Kim

“…Hence the representation of Italian primitivism in the novel frustrates Alvina’s pursuit of development, but the foreign landscape and the presence of the colonial Other within Lawrence’s text disrupt the Bildungsroman’s self-contained, teleological structure. …”
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Theophrastus on the First Principles by Eugene Afonasin

“…For instance, he frequently insists that the kosmos is a living and ordered universe (the whole), and its innate movement is something which cannot be explained with the help of hand-made teleological constructions, such as the first mover. …”
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Life Is Simple—Biologic Complexity Is an Epiphenomenon by John S. Torday

“…This perspective on life is a “game changer”, mechanistically rendering transparent many dogmas, teleologies and tautologies that constrain the current descriptive view of Biology.…”
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« Contre leurs violences sexistes, autodéfense féministe ! » À propos des stages d’autodéfense féministe et de ce qu’ils nous enseignent by Aurélia Léon

“…In doing so, the article sheds light on the teleological dimension of the training – which invites to join the feminist “inquiry” regarding gender-based violence which started in the 1970s – and the methodological connection between empowerment and somatic experimentation.…”
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Reconversion and Retrieval: Nonlinear Change in African Catholic Practice by Devaka Premawardhana

“…In the course of so doing, this article explores the overlaps between modernist thinking, Protestant ideals, and teleological trajectories; the factors behind reconversion and religious oscillation in sub-Saharan African contexts; inculturation and other continuity paradigms in Catholicism; the significance of the Renaissance for early modern Catholic missions; and the ministry of a contemporary Italian Catholic missionary serving in northern Mozambique. …”
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La communauté comme construction monétaire by Jérôme Blanc

“…Money thus becomes a teleological project or construction. This reasoning is illustrated by so-called complementary and community currencies, which pursue three purposes: beyond territorial socio-economic purposes and monetary purposes, we emphasize the community purpose, through which the building of the monetary project gives momentum to community building. …”
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Zwischen Ver- und Entortung. Der ‚dritte Raum‘ in ausgewählten Texten der Post-DDR-Literatur by Ilse Nagelschmidt

“…The ‘Gegengeschichten’ are able to articulate a critical perspective on unity and plurality of nations and questions their posit of a stable, teleological and hegemonical informed history policy.…”
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Roads to complexity by Mads Ravn

“…I suggest that the analogical approach gives us a less biased perspective in both places, because we avoid partial metanarratives, such as for example teleological, nationalist narratives. Using this approach, we will discover new aspects that cannot be identified in isolation. …”
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CURRICULUMUL UNIVERSITAR – FACTOR DETERMINANT ÎN REALIZAREA CONTINUITĂȚII ȘI INTERCONEXIUNII ÎNTRE CICLURI DE ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNT SUPERIOR by USM ADMIN

“…Aceste mecanisme țin de cadrul conceptual, teleologic, conținutal și procesual ca demersuri curriculare de valorificare a principiilor de continuitate și interconexiune. …”
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BUSINESS ETHICS AS ETHICS OF VIRTUE by A V Razin

“…The article shows that the approach associated with the ethics of the virtues, implies the consideration of the qualities that make the activity of a subject possible, speaks of the perfection of an in-dividual from the standpoint of his or her teleological structure, that is speaks about the perfection of a man from the point of view of his destination, perfection in the execution of public functions, unity of goods of the society and the individual. …”
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Racial Habitus, Resurrection, and Moral Imagination by Ebenezer Akesseh

“…This paper contributes a teleological response to the specter of racism by arguing that Christ’s resurrection and its power to influence people’s moral imagination offers a powerful means of dislodging racial habitus. …”
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Une critique de l’heuristique de la peur à usage des éducateurs contemporains by Camille Roelens

“…Contrary to heuristic of fear advocated by Jonas, the conclusion of this text invites to think of a prudent and humanistic educational action, in the perspective of a teleological individualism and a substantial consideration of the contemporary challenge of human autonomy.…”
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Higher education in Chile as a modernization process by Claudio Díaz Herrera

“…Consequently, we will try to reflect on a form of higher education that, beyond its regulatory and institutional structure, is affected by a social and economic structure to the extent of their dominance and the internalization of values from modernity, transformed in habitus, such as competitiveness, and individualistic requirements of a teleological and instrumental form, over the common good, vocation, social responsibility and professional ethics, to name a few.…”
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On the Nature of the Russian Liberalism by V. B. Aleksandrov

“…It, first of all, concerns opposition of internal freedom to freedom external, understanding of culture as matter of spiritual elite and the teleologic concept of the state.…”
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Kaleidoscopes of indexicality: multiplex symbolic functions of language and unfocused social categories by Schneider, B

“…The case shows that, where social categories are not focused and naturalized, we find multiplex orders of indexicality and non-teleological processes of enregisterment.…”

Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms by McIlroy, D, Green, O, Brasier, M

“…Platysolenites cooperi n.sp. is shown to extend below the first appearance of P. antiquissimus in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary stratotype region, SE Newfoundland, and to occur at higher stratigraphic levels in Wales and Finnmark. Taphonomic, teleological and ultrastructural studies on well-preserved material are consistent with a similar grade of organization and mode of life for P. antiquissimus and the living astrorhizacean foraminiferid Bathysiphon. …”