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Meanings of proximate end in English

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Usage of proximate end in English
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Now human habits and acts are specified, not by their last, but by their proximate end.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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The proximate end of innovation and elaboration has been the higher effectiveness of the new departure in point of beauty or of expressiveness.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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While I admit that happiness is the ultimate end to be contemplated, I do not admit that it should be the proximate end.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
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Hence it does not take its species from this end, but from the proximate end, which is to show oneself other than one is.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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2: The end is twofold; the last end, and the proximate end.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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2: The proximate end does not exclude the ultimate end.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
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The ant and the bee are, I think, much nearer man in the understanding or faculty of adapting means to proximate ends than the elephant.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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2: Vices take their species from their proximate end, while, from their remote end, they take their genus and cause.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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