GA18:89 – telos - teleion - limite

To summarize, we must hold primarily in view the fact that τέλος   has the determination of limit [Bestimmung   von Grenze  ]. This limit-character [Grenzcharakter] is to be apprehended as that beyond which there is nothing further, the end [Ende  ] at which something stops. But here we must be careful. A path through a meadow stops at a garden fence. But the garden fence is not   τέλειον. Being-the-path [Pfad-Sein  ] is not as such determined by the garden fence. That at which the path stops is itself a being which, in the same manner, is like that which stops at it. Presumably, τέλειον is not a being, or a piece of a being, whose end it constitutes. Rather, τέλειον is a way of being, a mode of being [Weise   des Seins] itself. Τέλειον is limit, but not as a being in relation to another being whose limit it is. In this sense, a thief is completed insofar as the limit is not outside of him. The how of his being, stealing itself, has come to its definite possibility. He is not a good thief for having come across a great stash of money. The τέλειον is a determination of the being of beings [Bestimmung des Seins des Seienden  ], and not some property such as the white or black of something. The beyond-which-nothing [Worüber-hinaus-nichts  ] has the character of limit in the sense of a determination of being. [GA18MT  :61-61]