unteleological

Adjective

unteleological (not comparable)

1. Not teleological; not directed toward a set purpose or end.
   • A consistently materialistic conception, consistently adhering to a materialistic interpretation of the process of development as well as of the facts involved in the process, could scarcely avoid making its putative dialectic struggle a mere unconscious and irrelevant conflict of the brute...1906, Thorstein Veblen, “Socialist economics of Karl Marx and his followers”, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 20, page 581
   • The essence, the fundamental mood of all Greek thought, lay in the problem of the immediate present, in the quest of an ars vivendi. Upon this confined, unteleological aspect of existence, the idea of man’s spiritual purpose seldom intruded.1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Part 2, Chapter 4