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entelechy Philos.|ɛnˈtɛləkɪ|
Also 7 entelechie, entelech; 6 in Gr. form entelecheia; 7–9 in Lat. entelechia.
[ad. Gr. ἐντελέχεια, f. ἐν + τέλει, dat. of τέλ-ος perfection + ἔχ-ειν to have.]
1. In Aristotle's use: The realization or complete expression of some function; the condition in which a potentiality has become an actuality.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 304 Aristotle..cal'eth [the soul] Entelechy, or perfection moving of itselfe. 1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. x. 500 Wickedness is the form and entelech of all the wicked spirits. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 256/1 The Soul is the first Entelechy of a natural organical body, having life potentially. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 43 The Entelechy, or Act, of a moveable body. 1842Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. I. 202/2 note, Aristotle defines the soul, the Form or Entelechy of an organized body. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 194 Motion is the entelechy (the perfecting power or principle) of the potential as potential.
2. In various applied senses (apparently due to misconceptions of Aristotle's meaning):
a. That which gives perfection to anything; the informing spirit.
b. The soul itself, as opposed to the body.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 5 When his Holiness the King of Spaine and Parsons theyr Entelechie were plotting beyond the seas. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 114 He seems to make it [the soul] nothing else..but an entelechia or informative thing. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 231 The purest parts of the separated entelechises [sic] of blessed saints. 1659Shirley Honoria & Mam. i. i, Soul..that bright entelecheia Which separates them from beasts.
3. The name given by Leibnitz to the monads of his system.
1877E. Caird Philos. Kant v. 92 It is better to give the general name of monads or entelechies to those simple substances that have only perception. |