单词 | natura naturans |
释义 | natura naturansn. Philosophy. Nature as a creative force or process; the essential or divine creative power. Also in extended use. Cf. nature v.1 2, natura naturata n. See also naturant adj.In later use usually with reference to the philosophy of Spinoza. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [noun] > elements of natura naturans1584 physis1606 natura naturata1668 1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. 120 Aristotles interpreters diuide nature into two formes, calling the one Natura Naturans, and the other Natura Naturata, that nature that naturateth, is that which Tullie accounteth for a God: that nature that is naturated, is man. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. ii. 5 Aristotle himselfe..calleth it naturam naturantem, naturing nature.] a1753 G. Berkeley Let. in A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley (1871) v. 180 Those who have all along contended for a material world have yet acknowledged that natura naturans (to use the language of the schoolmen) is God. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Lect. Notes 10 Mar. in Notebks. (1973) III. 4397 The essence must be mastered—the natura naturans & this presupposes a bond between Nature in this highest sense and the soul of Man. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. vi. 194 But taking timely warning, and leaving.., let us no longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature, natura naturans, the quick cause, before which all forms flee..in undescribable variety. 1855 W. Bagehot in National Rev. 1 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. 1903 R. A. Duff Spinoza's Polit. & 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. 1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months iv. 152 Matfre treats first of the nature and power of God (‘natura naturans’), Who has created all ‘Natura naturata’. 1958 E. F. J. Payne tr. A. Schopenhauer 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). 1989 S. R. L. Clark Civil Peace & Sacred Order vii. 136 Natura naturans, the spiritual cause and principle that governs the entire phenomenal world, is also what is experienced in us as right reason, conscience, the command of God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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