Significados de proximate end en inglés

Now human habits and acts are specified, not by their last, but by their proximate end.

The proximate end of innovation and elaboration has been the higher effectiveness of the new departure in point of beauty or of expressiveness.

While I admit that happiness is the ultimate end to be contemplated, I do not admit that it should be the proximate end.

Hence it does not take its species from this end, but from the proximate end, which is to show oneself other than one is.

2: The end is twofold; the last end, and the proximate end.

2: The proximate end does not exclude the ultimate end.

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.

2: Vices take their species from their proximate end, while, from their remote end, they take their genus and cause.