The idea of the presence of an immanent meaning in being and the general expediency of its existence was characteristic of ancient and medieval philosophy and remained relevant until the complication of views on ontology and the improvement of the theory of knowledge led to the fact that the causal explanation was established in the position the dominant epistemological principle in relation to the empirical world, while the teleological approach was left with the space of the phenomena of

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... iousness and the phenomena of culture. Despite this, in the natural sciences dealing with life, mechanistic determinism has not been unconditionally effective, therefore they do not exclude the idea ofexpediency from their tools. The teleological approach is the basis for creating an interpretive model that operates under certain conditions, among which it is necessary to have a degree of freedom in the interpreted phenomenon that can overcome the need for causal determinism. The goals corresponding to these grounds can be summarized in the form of sacred, secular and vital teleology as some sets of separate goals, united by a common leitmotif.