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===1.3.  Telos : Horizons and Further Applications===

===1.3.  Telos : Horizons and Further Applications===

In its etymology, intelligence suggests a capacity that contains its goal (''telos'') within itself.  [No, insert correction here.]  Of course, it does not initially grasp that for which it reaches, does not always possess its goal, otherwise it would be finished from the start.  So it must be that it contains only a knowledge of its goal.  This need not be a perfect knowledge even of what defines the goal, leaving room for clarification in that dimension, also.  Some thinkers on the question suspect that the capacity for setting goals may answer to another name:  wisdom (''sophia''), prudence (''phronesis''), and even elegance (''arete'') are among the candidates often heard.  If so, intelligence would have a relationship to this wisdom and sagacity that is analogous to the relationship of logic to ethics and esthetics.  At least, this is how it appears from the standpoint of one philosophical tradition that recommends itself to me.

In its etymology, intelligence suggests a capacity that contains its goal  

(telos) within itself.  [No, insert correction here.]  Of course, it does not initially grasp that for which it  

reaches, does not always possess its goal, otherwise it would be finished from  

the start.  So it must be that it contains only a knowledge of its goal.  This  

need not be a perfect knowledge even of what defines the goal, leaving room for  

clarification in that dimension, also.  Some thinkers on the question suspect  

that the capacity for setting goals may answer to another name:  wisdom  

(sophia), prudence (phronesis), and even elegance (arete) are among the  

candidates often heard.  If so, intelligence would have a relationship to this  

wisdom and sagacity that is analogous to the relationship of logic to ethics and  

esthetics.  At least, this is how it appears from the standpoint of one  

philosophical tradition that recommends itself to me.

====1.3.1.  Logic, Ethics, Esthetics====

====1.3.1.  Logic, Ethics, Esthetics====