actative
Serving to act.
Adjective
- Serving to act.
- Firstly then, the MENS may be said to be subject to the immotions of contemplation and volition, corresponding to, but not similar to, the receptative and actative natures of the ANIMUS, which have been regarded as...
- Perhaps the most acute expression of the different structures of time and being within philosophy can be found in the actative dimension which provides the difference between Heraclitus and Plato. - 1991, Andrew...
- Thus, groups are not only possessed of certain attributes (intelligence, beauty, work ethic, and other entative characteristics), but they enjoy active control over others by determining their life outcomes (they...
Origin
From act + -ative.
Forms
Noun
- Something that serves to act.
- Whose are these hands? Are they really Blanchot’s? How could Blanchot be so careless as to reinstate the actative of “writing” when all action had given way to absence? - 2005, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “"What terrifying...
- The ineliminable presence of action and with it of inscribed presence of the actative in this formulation should not therefore pass unnoticed. - 1998, Andrew Benajamin, “Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate:...
- Rather than a substantative, having an essence that can be identified, holiness or spirituality is better termed an actative. This actative is conflictual and therefore unable to support an essential. - 2016, Helen...