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How to Think Like a Thomist: Teleology

How to Think Like a Thomist: Teleology

Monday, December 29, 2025
  “The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist.” G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World Following Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas speaks of the end or finality of a thing ― that…