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self-ˈactive, a. [self- 3 b.] Acting of itself without external impulse.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxiv, Some souls at least are self-active Withouten body having Energie. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 17 Intrinsecally moved by an immaterial self-active Substance. 1906G. H. Howison Let. 9 Feb. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 776 The self-active unity of consciousness. 1936Allport & Odbert in Psychol. Monogr. XLVII. i. 17 It was customary for psychologists to conceive some ‘power of the mind’..and by naming it to regard the power as fixed and self-active. So self-acˈtivity.
1644Digby Nat. Soul Concl. 455 A selfe actiuity, and vnbounded extent, and essence free from time and place. a1761Law Comf. Weary Pilgr. (1809) 72 Stop..all self-activity. 1864Bowen Logic i. 3 The spontaneity, or self-activity, of the intellect. 1889Mivart Truth 190 Whenever we act, we have a certain vague feeling of our self-activity. 1932C. S. Myers Absurdity of Mind-Body Rel. 4 All conscious mental activity is self-activity; only the self is conscious—conscious, at first, solely of self-activity (conation) and of modifications of that self-activity (affects). 1961R. C. Tucker Philos. & Myth in Marx viii. 134 ‘Self-activity’.., by which Marx means free creativity in which a person feels thoroughly at home with himself..and experiences his energies as his own. |