The example they give in the introduction isn't actually right. The purpose of an acorn is to become an acorn again. It's a cyclic structure so it's teleology isn't as simple as stated. More generally, all biological organisms really have only one telos, reproduction/replication.
The example they give in the introduction isn't actually right. The purpose of an acorn is to become an acorn again. It's a cyclic structure so it's teleology isn't as simple as stated. More generally, all biological organisms really have only one telos, reproduction/replication.