When Aristotle said, "Every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be said to aim at some good. Hence the good has been well defined as that at which all things aim," he was expounding a view of the universe that is called ________.

A. teleological
B. nicomachean
C. deontological
D. hydrological


Ans: A. teleological

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