dysteleology

(dĭs-tĕl′ē-ŏl′ə-jē, -tē′lē-)

1. The doctrine of purposelessness in nature.

2. Purposelessness in natural structures, as manifested by the existence of vestigial or nonfunctional organs or parts.

dys·tel′e·o·log′i·cal (-ə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.

dys·tel′e·ol′o·gist n.

References in periodicals archive

Hence, the nature of rational choice as a specific way to pursue a market-based pattern of subsistence, and of "economizing" as a catholic human pursuit distinguishes modality from behavior, as well as pattern of subsistence and objective motives to set a clear dysteleology between "economizing" and other institutionalized social behaviors conditions based on the inevitability of societal divisiveness rooted in the caprice of differentiated human wants within a capitalist economy via a requisite need for order through social control.

Globalization as meta-axiological dilemma: the sociological implications of rational choice criteria for local cultural deep structure

As might be expected, this discussion mostly revolves around the existence of morally significant beings and the problems of evil and dysteleology. Different contributors handle it with varying degrees of adeptness.

God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science

Rather, Auden suggests that the dysteleology ('enraged phenomena') of the modern world is inscrutable.

The Frontiers of the psyche and the limits of form in Auden's 'Quest' sonnets

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