TELEOLOGY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Teleology

... contradictions, but by acknowledging them to the full, and by seeing that Nature is supplemented by man and his soul. Such a union, as has already been pointed out, will create an earnestness and joyousness of life; it will enable man, when any teleology of Nature herself fails to give him satisfaction, to realise a teleology within the substance of his own life—spiritual in its essence, infinite in its duration, and the flowering of a bud which has grown with the help of the natural cosmos. When Nature is thus ...

— An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy • W. Tudor Jones