Teleology: Everything Has a Purpose

  Teleology is a word composed of two Greek roots: telos meaning ‘end’ or ‘purpose’ and logia meaning ‘speak of’, ‘study of’, or ‘a branch of learning’. Therefore, broadly speaking, teleology is an area of philosophy that studies the ends or purposes of a being or an object. It’s an approach that seeks to explain the ultimate causes of a certain reality. Teleology, as a term, first appeared when Wolff coined it in 1728. However, this field of analysis originally emerged with the early Greek philosophers. The first to talk about the subject was Plato and then Aristotle took it…