self-motion

Lower animals have, in addition, the powers of sense-perception and self-motion (action).

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

Lower animals have, in addition, the powers of sense-perception and self-motion (action).

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

For Henry the will is characterized by the capacity for self-motion.

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

Clarke steadfastly maintained that matter has neither an essential nor an accidental power of self-motion.

Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

In fact, he goes further, and admits self-motion in physical cases as well: for example, a falling object is actively moving towards its goal, and its motion is caused by itself (because it is heavy); so this, too, is an instance of self-motion (Effler 1962).

Medieval Theories of Causation White, Graham 2009

In Quodlibet X of the Advent Session, 1286, Henry returns to the problem of the self-motion of the will, introducing the notion of virtus ad movendum, through which the spiritual faculties

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

The will is thus self-determining, rather than determined by its end, and so Scotus affirms self-motion in psychology.

Medieval Theories of Causation White, Graham 2009

The Motive Forces of the development of society, in a broad sense include social contradictions as an ultimate condition of self-development and self-motion; the progressive activity of social subjects, which resolve these contradictions; the motivation for this activity (needs, interests, etc.)

Motive forces and the ANC 2006

Wherefore it lives and does not differ from a living being, but is fixed and rooted in the same spot, having no power of self-motion.

Timaeus 2006

The immanence of things in the Ideas, or the partial separation of them, and the self-motion of the supreme Idea, are probably the forms in which he would have interpreted his own parable.

The Statesman 2006