Telos Flashcards
(8 cards)
“ we have a lack of knowledge cannot move…
Towards an end, unless it is directed by some intelligent being”
(Aquinas)
“ an arrow is directed to the target…
By an archer; dresses an intelligent being exist whom directs/orders all natural things”
(Aquinas)
“ when you see your son do you see that it tells the time by design…
And not by chance. How then can you imagine that the universe is a hole is devoid of purpose and intelligence, when it embraces everything?”
(Paley)
“ at birth, every part of the human mouth is perfectly formed but…
The design is so perfect that nature does not permit teeth to be formed until the time when the baby has usually finished it’s dependent upon the mother’s milk”
(Paley)
“ beauty seems to be…
Superfluous and his little value…”
(Tennant
“ just because every human has a mother…
Does not mean the whole of humanity has a mother”
(Russell
when talking about the fallacy of composition)
“Does not a plant… which springs..
From vegetation bear a stronger resemblance to the world,than does a machine”
(Hume)