[peirce-l] Entelechy, friends of wisdom, nanomanagement

[Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen]

Dear Cassiano, list,   I regard the below message as very interesting. Cassiano, your English is definitely not poor. And for me it adds for sure to the understanding of the very interesting notion of Entelechy. Which I also regard a very interesting subject. But, till now I only know the sources of Peirce and Aristotle for this notion. Maybe some people here now some other sources where interesting statements about entelechy are made?   Besides this I would like to mention some initiative I take part in now and that might be worthwhile to subscribe to for some members of this list. It is the initiative called “friends of wisdom”. The official website being http://www.knowledgetowisdom.org/. The most interesting thing is, we currently have 2 mailing lists there. One for the initiative itself, and one for discussions. The discussions there are very interesting to me. And I think there will be enough people here who would also be interested. Besides this initiative, I once again would like to mention my own initiative on www.nanomanagement.info. Would like to request people from here again to enlist on that website. But actually it is just there but not very active yet. Also because of the small group of members yet, unfortunately. But I will surely add more means for communication and, more interesting, more useful info and insights there. Much more. In some months or so (first have to complete my PhD research which is taking most of my time now). In some months my initiative on www.nanomanagement.info will be much more interesting for sure. But to enable this, I need more people taking part. As soon as possible. So once again, I would request people to view and enlist.   Kind regards,   Wilfred   Van: Cassiano Terra Rodrigues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 5 juni 2006 3:51 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: Entelechy   Hello list: It's been a long while I don't write, but the subject interests me. I run the risk of repeating everything that was said here about entelechy, but a look up at the form of the word seems appropriate: entelechy in ancient greek is a form of saying (as literally as I can see) en telos echein, that is, something like "to have the end [aim?] in", "the obtaining of the end" (since the verb "echein" has a wide semantic range). In this sense, it is possible to think of it as a process rather than the final result of the process itself - if we think in analogy to the ultimate interpretant, it's perfectly fit: although the interpretant is called "ultimate", it's nonetheless still an interpretant, sign-process in sum. Now, the substantive "entelechia" seems to indicate exactly this, as I can see, in Aristotle: a process of attaining the end (telos), which should not as I see be defined as a definite outcome, final and not capable of being fowarded furthermore - because the idea of telos carries the notion of possible aim to be reached - the final cause is of the nature of a general desire, in Peirce's interpretation (which seems a very plausible way to read Aristotle's theory of the four causes - the formal cause being in the end the same as the final cause, the material cause the same as the efficient cause). So, entelechy would be a process of causation, the finalization of the  process of attainment a telos, or of fulfillment of the end, if I can say this in English. So, it continues to be a process, as I tend to read it; not the same as before, but still a process. I hope I'm understandable in this poor English of mine, and I also hope I'm not completely out of the discussion. All the best to all, Cassiano (from the Center for Studies on Pragmatism, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC), Brasil). --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.1/355 - Release Date: 2-6-2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.1/355 - Release Date: 2-6-2006