Entelecheia (English spelling)

Japanese: エンテレケイア(英語表記)entelecheia
Entelecheia (English spelling)
An Aristotelian term meaning in a final state. According to him, becoming is the actualization of form, which is the end (telos) of matter in a potential state, and this actualized state or form itself is entelecheia. In other words, it is perfect actuality, which can also be translated as actualization. It is synonymous with energeia, which expresses actuality, but the latter emphasizes the active aspect. This concept was inherited by scholastic philosophy, and in the early modern period Leibniz used it as a synonym for monad, emphasizing the meaning of actualization. An extension of this is Driesch's vitalism, in which entelecheia is asserted to be the life principle of living organisms that transcends causality.

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Japanese:
アリストテレスの用語で,終極状態にあることを意味する。彼によれば,生成は可能態にある質料が目的 telosである形相を実現することにあり,その実現された状態もしくは形相そのものがエンテレケイアである。すなわちそれは完全現実態であり,実現態とも訳される。現実態を表わすエネルゲイアと同義であるが,後者のほうは活動的な面を強調する。スコラ哲学に継承されたこの概念は,近世ではライプニッツがモナドの同義語として用い,実現力の意味を強調した。その延長上にドリーシュの生気論があり,そこではエンテレケイアは因果性をこえた生物の生命原理として主張されている。

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