1Human telos, on the other hand, is far more plastic and malleable.
2Thus, for Aristotle, telos is a foundational concept for looking at the world.
3Hence, I have not advanced an orthodox Aristotelian view of telos.
4While their telos would certainly be improved, other animals would very likely be harmed.
5But as his analysis of animal telos makes clear, nature can be surprisingly flexible.
6Let us recall that a telos is not only genetically based but environmentally expressed.
7Surely height augmentation will not change the human telos.
8For the new-look telos, it's now all slick minimalist furniture, plasma TVs and free mini-bars.
9TELEOLOGY: the belief in design and purpose (telos) in nature.
10Thus, god's telos, contained in its activity of thinking, is clearly known because of its simplicity.
11Steamy liaisons in short stay hotels -or telos -are nothing new in Argentina's capital.
12But we ought not fundamentally alter the human telos of a human being in any analogous way.
13One cannot harm a species (or telos) except by harming the individuals falling under the concept.
14The price, therefore, of improving one telos of animals in nature may well be to degrade the efficacy of others.
15By the "is" level, I mean those modifications that directly affect mainly the biology of the human telos.
16Now that we need no longer respect telos to use animals successfully, the concept helps articulate our moral obligations to them.