I appreciate Timothy's warning for why historians should be sensitive to
the use of telic political exposition. That is, he shows why defining telos
in terms of finality or pre-determination is both useful and important. In
the lecture, Timothy describes a well-known tyrant's *love letter* to a
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Quick comment from me, not to the direct point in this post, which I like too,
but on something about Snyder which I learned (just off-hand) from a colleague
within the past 2 weeks.
These ideas about the language of inevitability as one of the devices of
tyrants was, I think, argued in much th
