Human telos, on the other hand, is far more plastic and malleable.

Thus, for Aristotle, telos is a foundational concept for looking at the world.

Hence, I have not advanced an orthodox Aristotelian view of telos.

While their telos would certainly be improved, other animals would very likely be harmed.

But as his analysis of animal telos makes clear, nature can be surprisingly flexible.

Let us recall that a telos is not only genetically based but environmentally expressed.

Surely height augmentation will not change the human telos.

For the new-look telos, it's now all slick minimalist furniture, plasma TVs and free mini-bars.

TELEOLOGY: the belief in design and purpose (telos) in nature.

Thus, god's telos, contained in its activity of thinking, is clearly known because of its simplicity.

Steamy liaisons in short stay hotels -or telos -are nothing new in Argentina's capital.

But we ought not fundamentally alter the human telos of a human being in any analogous way.

One cannot harm a species (or telos) except by harming the individuals falling under the concept.

The price, therefore, of improving one telos of animals in nature may well be to degrade the efficacy of others.

By the "is" level, I mean those modifications that directly affect mainly the biology of the human telos.

Now that we need no longer respect telos to use animals successfully, the concept helps articulate our moral obligations to them.