originative


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having the ability or power to create

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containing seeds of later development

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However, as representation, consciousness is merely a shadow of actual life that Marx terms 'ideology', a type of consciousness where 'men and their circumstances appear upside-down.' (37) In other words, what is derivative from actual life, such as class relations or monetary systems, present themselves as originative in ideology.
These may be described as originative or foundational experiences, since a long history of human worship and understanding of God traces back to each of them.
When the historians of technology first began to revolt against "the linear model" and its view of science as originative source, as unmoved mover, of technological progress, they were setting themselves against prejudices deeply entrenched in modern culture ...
Originative: Beyond simply building a product, originative students develop seminal ideas that provide the foundation for the work of others.
That "event," then, was not the making of a painting, but more a creative or originative act that materialized the emotional and intellectual energy of the painter.
Here I go along with Habermas "Thus, Derrida achieves an inversion of Husserlian Foundationalism inasmuch as the originative transcendental power of creative subjectivity passes over into the anonymous, history-making productivity of writing [language]." (5)
al-Assad spoke of the difference between excellence in studying and distinguished thinking and performance, stressing that creative and originative ways of thinking are very important for overcoming the challenges.
Here, their discourse theory is far more strengthened since if there is no central, originative and transcendental signified, "everything become discourse" and "the play of signification" is extended infinitely.
Because Victorians understand fairy tales to be without authorial origin, literary artists insist that tales are there for the taking, but also fret that they exude their own originative power that pervades and precludes authored work.
Creation's originative gratuity, the incarnate Word proclaims the
There is, to be sure, for both Zahm and Mivart, an inner-directed purposeful development of the natural world as a larger system, and in this sense evolution is a teleological process: "In spite of all that may be said to the contrary, the unbiased and reverent student must see in nature the evidence of a Power which is originative, directive, immanent; a Power which is intelligent, wise, supreme." (Zahm, 1896a, p.
ultimate control--the originative control exercised by agents when it is "up to them" which of a set of possible choices or actions will now occur, and up to no one and nothing else over which the agents themselves do not also have control.
Contributors describe what the bias of their work suggests when considering cosmopolitanism and provinciality in communication ethics, covering such topics as the aspect of the universal in humans, aesthetic love and romantic love, discourse promoting cosmopolitanism, Levinas on communication ethics outside of originative agency, globalization in dialogic ethics, religion and dialogue, community at the end of the world, Grimke's dialogic ethic, eros and logos is Plato's Sophia, scripting Jewishness within the satire The Hebrew Hammer, the reasonableness of bias, Limbaugh and public dismissiveness, and the concepts of response, responsibility and commitment in Arendt, Adorno and Benjamin.