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" There is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a telos—or of a variety of ends or "
The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art - Page 26
by Jonathan Gilmore - 2000 - 157 pages
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Ethics, Religion, and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World

Joseph Runzo - 1992 - 240 pages
...one another but also a correlative placing of those events in relation to projections of the future: There is no present which is not informed by some...in the form of a telos—or of a variety of ends or goals—towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present. Unpredictability and...
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Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Narrative Accounts of Liberalism

Maureen Whitebrook - 1995 - 172 pages
...relationships with each other, in the light of certain conceptions of a possible shared future . . . There is no present which is not informed by some image of the future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a telos—or of a...
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Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology

Gerard Loughlin - 1999 - 286 pages
...beckon us forward and others repel us, some seem already foreclosed and others perhaps inevitable. There is no present which is not informed by some...future which always presents itself in the form of a telos - or of a variety of ends or goals - towards which we are either moving or failing to move in...
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The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture

Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1996 - 314 pages
...However, most people still take a longer view of life and its scope than this. As Macintyre argues, ‘there is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a reios — or a variety of ends or...
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Memory, Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences

Lewis P. Hinchman, Sandra Hinchman - 1997 - 430 pages
...beckon us forward and others repel us, some seem already foreclosed and others perhaps inevitable. There is no present which is not informed by some...in the form of a telos—or of a variety of ends or goals—towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present. Unpredictability and...
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Self-knowledge in the Age of Theory

Ann Hartle - 1997 - 212 pages
...narrative is revealed in the fact that individuals and communities live in the light of a possible future. "There is no present which is not informed by some...in the form of a telos—or of a variety of ends or goals— toward which we are either moving or failing to move in the present." 14 An end would be either...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...beckon us forward and others repel us, some seem already foreclosed and others perhaps inevitable. There is no present which is not informed by some...in the form of a telos—or of a variety of ends or goals—towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present. Unpredictability and...
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Justice to Future Generations and the Environment

H.P. Visser 't Hooft - 1999 - 184 pages
...instance, it anticipates future experiences by hoping for the fulfilment of its present intentions. “There is no present which is not informed by some image of some future ,,201 This is no mere psychology, is has a profoundly moral side to it. Moral deliberation is deliberation...
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End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History

Crispin Sartwell - 2000 - 154 pages
...relationships with each other, in the light of certain conceptions of a possible shared future. . . . There is no present which is not informed by some...future which always presents itself in the form of a trios—or of a variety of ends or goals—toward which we are either moving or failing to move in,...
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Terrorism and Democratic Stability

Jennifer S. Holmes - 2001 - 266 pages
...their studies. Alasdair Maclntyre argues that teleology is not as uncommon as one may first suspect: ‘there is no present which is not informed by some...future which always presents itself in the form of telos — or of a variety of ends or goals — towards which we are either moving or failing to move...
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