Assertion: conscience's power | /r/HasProperty | active
Facets:
value: in the nutritive part
type: OTHER
value: in regard to some particular thing
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: But all the powers of the vegetative part are active; yet they are the lowest among the powers of the soul.
text: Furthermore they supposed some powers to be potential and passive, that is, to need a creative determinant received into them as their complement: of which kind a prominent example was the intellectus possibilis informed by the species intelligibilis, and another instance was in relation to conscience, the synteresis.
text: Wherefore all men enjoy in common the power which is the principle of this action: and this power is the active intellect.
text: Wherefore nothing prevents one and the same soul, inasmuch as it is actually immaterial, having one power by which it makes things actually immaterial, by abstraction from the conditions of individual matter: which power is called the "active intellect"; and another power, receptive of such species, which is called the "passive intellect" by reason of its being in potentiality to such species.
text: Now the intellect is a passive power in regard to the whole universal being: while the vegetative power is active in regard to some particular thing, namely, the body as united to the soul.
text: Wherefore it is clear that in the nutritive part all the powers are active, whereas in the sensitive part all are passive: but in the intellectual part, there is something active and something passive.