telos

The Case against Perfectionには何度も出てくる単語が幾つかあります。
Arguments about the ethics of enhancement are always, at least in part, arguments about the telos, or point, of the sport in question.
この "telos" はこの後にも次ぎのように出てきます。
Consider the alternative. Some people deny that sports have a point. They reject the idea that the rules of a game should fit the telos of the sports, and honor the talents displayed by those who play it well.
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Medicine, like sports, is a practice with a purpose, a telos, that orients and constraints it.
これらの "telos" の意味は何でしょう。
・Oxford English Dictionary: chiefly Philosophy or literary, an ultimate object or aim: in the hedonistic life, people lose some moral purpose, a telos which provides the moral justification for the society
・Random House Unabridged Dictionary: the end term of a goal-directed process; esp., the Aristotelian final cause.
・Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy: Greek term for the end, completion, purpose, or goal of any thing or activity. According to Aristotle, this is the final cause which accounts for the existence and nature of a thing. Following Wolff, modern philosophers (often pejoratively) designate as teleological any explanation, theory, or argument that emphasizes purpose.
哲学用語ですね。