During the tenure of Aristotle’s philosophy, he discussed a major factor known as teleology that tells about the existence of nature for a specific purpose. By studying this purpose, he did not understand conscious intention. Rather, he described that a specific function built into the nature of everything. This function or built-in purpose is collectively known as Entelechy.
Entelechy has the potential to keep an object developing or moving in a finite position until it is reached to a full potential way. Nature consists of a part of living things that causes the potentiality to incept the organism’s actions. An acorn has the capacity to become an oak tree but it does not possess the ability to become an olive tree or a frog that ultimately signifies that it has the entelechy of an acorn to become an oak tree.
Nature is continuously changing and is characterized by the change and motion of objects that are slowly transformed from their abilities to their actualities. Hence, it justifies that objects move towards their final purposes or causes such as when an acorn becomes an oak tree. Aristotle also exemplified the final cause or purpose of something as its essence.