>>5I'm interested in what Aristotle would have thought if he'd lived to be 2399.
Combine the idea of charitable interpretation and the steel man, so as not to practice the dark art of being right. See not just what he says, but what he meant. See not just what he meant, but what he could have meant. Aristotelianism should not be his conclusions, not even his methods, but what his methods would have been had he lived to be twenty four centuries old. I find this endlessly engrossing.
Teleology is very similar to equilibrium. Specifically, if a system only has one equilibrium, it's identical to teleology. In practice, almost all systems with stable states have only one equilibrium they will go towards. Further, we can speak of abstract equilibria, or the state of being in a dynamic equilibrium. Riverbeds change chaotically, always…but the dynamics of those change are constant. A flipped coin has no single concrete equilibrium, but the average of coin flipping, of which the coin is a single token, has a rock-hard equilibrium.