Interesting article about what are the ends/goals of any our work, especially about activities around building knowledge.
“… revealed four key ways in which to understand ‘ends’, which emerged collectively: end as telos, end as terminus, end as termination and end as apocalypse. “
“… four groupings – unification, access, utopia/dystopia and conceptualisation – synthesise many of the ways that knowledge workers respond when asked to consider their discipline’s ends, from seeking a point of convergence for knowledge to articulating the central project of their field. “
More of this in article here: [The Link]
Also interesting to checkout their book: The ends of knowledge; outcomes and endpoints across the arts & sciences