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Four approaches to teleology
by Edward Feser
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The debate over telos never ends. Yet more on the subject over at my personal blog.
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I’ll stipulate that William Paley and the Intelligent Design theorists are Platonic teleologists; and that Platonic teleology is opposed to Aristotelian teleology. It does not follow from this, however, that the “design argument” is essentially opposed to either Thomistic or Aristotelian teleology; for the simple fact is that the design argument is not a competing teleology at all, but, as its name says, an “argument” by which only one position is threatened, the “teleological eliminavist” position.
If, while employing this argument, the IDers make anti-Aristotelian assumptions, this is only because it is an argumentum ad hominem which concedes to the eliminavists the latter’s worldview in order to make the argument more cogent.
Posted by George R. | October 2, 2009 12:01 PM