Well, in line with his teleological account of justice, Aristotle argues that to know how political authority should be distributed we have, first, to inquire into the purpose, the point, the telos, of politics.
And so not only the question of debating the purpose, the teleological feature, but also from the standpoint of viewing debates about the purpose of golf. What's essential to golf?
Like the only two possible values he comes up with is like this kind of teleological meaning type value versus this kind of smaller but real value of the moment type value.
And that, I think, is something that shocked people a lot and that did, I think, most of the job when it comes to discrediting the naive Enlightenment view of teleology.
Now, one of the things that makes it strange is that in Aristotle's world, in the ancient world, it wasn't only social practices that were governed, in Aristotle's view, by teleological reasoning and teleological explanation.
But the very interesting thing about purpose is that once you do get to a idea-generating species or collective organism, yeah, then, you know, kind of all bets are off, and there is goals, there is teleology.
That could mean the teleological argument and the design argument, or it could mean the straight cosmological argument, or it could mean something more like what sort of Aristotelian.