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He thought there was a danger of our lives becoming totally focused on thesetelic activities, acting as a means to an end. And the way he puts it is: Work is for the sake of leisure, not the other way around. We have a tendency to get locked into thismode where we're acting for the sake of something else without ever getting the something else.
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Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.