endlike

comparative more endlike · superlative most endlike

1. Of, relating to, or pertaining to the end; final; terminal.

   […] and if there is more than one virtue, from the best and most final (or endlike) of them over a finished lifetime.

   2003, D. N. Sedley, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

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   I am proposing here to understand the qualifier τελεα in application to eudaimonia in X 7 (as with τελειοτάτη ἀρετÆ at I 7, 1098a18) as meaning “final” or “endlike,” in accordance with Aristotle's explicit statement [...]

   2004, John Madison Cooper, Knowledge, nature, and the good: essays on ancient philosophy

   Thus what Aristotle is referring to are endlike results that arise in nature but are produced in an unusual or exceptional fashion; […]

   2007, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, William R. Newman, The artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity

   Or, rather, here are some things that seem endlike, but they are not truly endlike. They only seem endlike because they reflect a posturing of false pretensions and surrogate determinances.

   2008, Craig Hovey, To share in the body

   Invoking once again the criteria he laid down in I.7 for the best good, he tries to show that the contemplative life is most endlike and most self-sufficient, […]

   2009, Aristotle, Lesley Brown, The Nicomachean Ethics