| Nisyrus lies to the north of telos, at the distance of about 60 stadia, which is its distance also from Cos. |
| In opposition to the Newtonian mechanistic view of nature he sees nature as an organic system of opposed forces with a built-in telos towards the emergence of consciousness. |
| But there is a directionality in the sense that the earlier stages have the later ones as their telos, or goal, while the later stages both presuppose and include the earlier ones as important but subordinate moments. |
| The eschatological motif leads likewise to a theology that takes its orientation from the perspective of our human telos together with the telos of creation as a whole. |
| Written well before the emergence of identity politics, it has no a priori commitment to the telos of its hero's self-understanding. |
| Perhaps, dislocated as they are now from their original telos, the cycle could continue to release cathectic energies and be transformed into a nonspecific work of mourning. |
