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Pronunciation / Transliteration: mokutekiteki shinka
"社会の発展には計画的な目的的進化が必要不可欠である。"
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Progress achieved through purposeful, intelligent planning and human effort directed toward a specific end.
"Societal advancement depends on effective telesis rather than leaving development strictly to natural selection." - 2
The application of natural laws and social engineering to achieve desired social goals.
"The economists argued that modern fiscal policy is a prime example of economic telesis."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in 1916 by the American sociologist Lester Frank Ward from the Greek prefix tel-, meaning 'far' or 'end/purpose', combined with the suffix -sis, denoting action or process. Ward introduced the term to describe progress achieved through conscious, purposeful planning and the application of intelligent human effort, as opposed to blind evolutionary processes.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Telesis" is said worldwide
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télesis
Transliteration: télesis
"Le progrès social exige une véritable télesis et non du hasard."
Telesis
Transliteration: Telesis
"Sozialer Fortschritt erfordert zielgerichtete Telesis."
telesi
Transliteration: telesi
"Il progresso guidato dalla telesi è essenziale per la società."
télesis
Transliteration: télesis
"La télesis social busca mejorar las condiciones humanas de forma consciente."
télesis
Transliteration: télesis
"A evolução direcionada pela télesis difere da seleção natural pura."
उद्देश्यपूर्ण प्रगति
Transliteration: uddeshyapurna pragati
"सफल समाज के लिए उद्देश्यपूर्ण प्रगति (टेलेसिस) आवश्यक है।"
目的进化
Transliteration: mùdì jìnhuà
"社会进步需要理性的目的进化。"
목적적 진화
Transliteration: mokjeokjeok jinhwa
"사회적 발전은 단순한 우연이 아니라 목적적 진화에 달려 있다."
目的的進化
Transliteration: mokutekiteki shinka
"社会の発展には計画的な目的的進化が必要不可欠である。"
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