teleocracy

plural teleocracies · alternative telocracy

1. countableuncountableAn organization or system of government existing for a specific purpose.

   These policies of integration (which were often as comprehensive as circumstances and the available apparatus of management permitted) were adventures in teleocracy.

   1975, “On the Character of a Modern European State”, in On Human Conduct, page 281

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   In the first, the trend towards teleocracy is seen to be historically inevitable on account of recent (mainly technological) developments; "it is alleged to be the destiny imposed upon Europe (indeed, upon the world) by the 'needs of the epoch'."

   1990, Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, page 216

   The problem with these arguments, powerfully made and clearly well intentioned though they very often are, is they simply do not establish what they need to establish: the necessity of teleocracy.

   2013, Nicholas Rengger, Just War and International Order, page 166