purposiveness

And Lindsey wonders why anyone would welcome a world devoid of striving, ambition and “future-oriented purposiveness of any sort.”

“The people demand clarity of vision and purposiveness of action.”

An Aristotelian could never argue like this: Aristotle himself did not believe the universe had a creator, and his medieval successors thought that purposiveness was part of the very fabric of nature.

Kant defined art as “purposiveness without purpose.”

The End of Nightby Paul Bogard The subject is a fertile one – though predictably the answers prove somewhat melancholy – and Bogard sets about his investigations with an energetic purposiveness and enterprise.