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‖ natura naturans Philos.|næˈtjʊərə ˈnætjuːrænz|
[L. nātūra birth, constitution, etc., f. nāt-, pple. stem of nascī to be born + med.L. nāturans pres. pple.]
Nature creating; the essential creative power or act. Also natura naturata |-ˈɑːtə|, nature created; the natural phenomena and forces in which creation is manifested. Also transf. Cf. nature v.1 2.
1605[see nature v.1 2]. c1818Coleridge On Poesy & Art in Biog. Lit. (1907) II. 257 If the artist copies the mere nature, the natura naturata, what idle rivalry!.. Believe me, you must master the essence, the natura naturans, which presupposes a bond between nature in the higher sense and the soul of man. 1855Bagehot in National Rev. I. 57 A school of ‘common-sense poets’,..who proceed to describe what they see around them, to describe its natura naturans, to delineate its natura naturata. 1903R. A. Duff Spinoza's Pol. & Ethical Philos. i. 3 It might be shown that Spinoza did, and could, make no claim to terms such as substance,..idea, natura naturans and natura naturata.., nor even to the definitions which he gives of them. 1933R. Tuve Seasons and Months iv. 152 Matfre treats first of the nature and power of God (‘natura naturans’), Who has created all ‘Natura naturata’. 1950F. Copleston Hist. Philos. II. iv. xix. 198 Averroes's..metaphysical scale reaches from pure matter..to pure Act, God, as the highest limit, between these limits being the objects composed of potency and act, which form Natura naturata. (The phrases of the Latin translation, Natura naturans and Natura naturata, reappear eventually in the system of Spinoza.) 1958E. F. J. Payne tr. Schopenhauer's World as Will II. xvii. 175 Such an absolute system of physics as described above, which would leave no room for any metaphysics, would make natura naturata (created nature) into natura naturans (creative nature). |