teleocracy
English
Alternative forms
- telocracy
Etymology
telos + -ocracy
Noun
teleocracy (countable and uncountable, plural teleocracies)
- An organization or system of government existing for a specific purpose.
- 1975, “On the Character of a Modern European State”, in On Human Conduct, page 281:
- These policies of integration (which were often as comprehensive as circumstances and the available apparatus of management permitted) were adventures in teleocracy.
- 1990, Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, page 216:
- In the first, the trend towards teleocracy is seen to be historically inevitable on account of recent (mainly technological) developments; "it is alleged to be the destiny imposed upon Europe (indeed, upon the world) by the 'needs of the epoch'."
- 2013, Nicholas Rengger, Just War and International Order, page 166:
- The problem with these arguments, powerfully made and clearly well intentioned though they very often are, is they simply do not establish what they need to establish: the necessity of teleocracy.
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Related terms
- teleocrat
- teleocratic