actus purusn.

Brit.

/ˈaktəs ˈpjʊərəs/, U.S.

/ˈæktəs ˈp(j)ʊrəs/

Forms:

α. 1500s– actus purus, 1800s actus puros (plural).

β. 1700s purus actus.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin actus purus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin actus purus pure act (a1274 in Thomas Aquinas) < classical Latin āctus (see act n.) + pūrus pure adj., after ancient Greek ἐνέργεια energy n.For Aquinas's use compare:a1274 St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theol. i. 14. 2 Cum igitur Deus nihil potentialitatis habeat, sed sit actus purus. In plural form actus puros after the Latin accusative plural form. In β. forms after pure act at act n. 4.

Philosophy.

1. Pure action, unmixed with potentiality or passivity; an instance of this. Cf. act n. 4.Frequently used by Scholastic philosophers to describe God.

ΚΠ

1598 S. Gosson Trumpet of Warre sig. D4 God is..aboue all, and ouer all Actus purus, so ful of actiuitie, that none is able to inflict any passion vpon him.

1623 G. Fletcher Reward of Faithfull i. iii. 67 The prerogatiue royall of Diuinity, to consist not of Act and Power,..but to be Actus Purus, All Act and Essence without any reference of time, or difference of qualitie.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xxii. 162 An accident is an actus purus.

c1705 G. Berkeley Commonplace Bk. in Wks. (1871) IV. 450 The substance of Spirit we do not know..it being a purus actus.

1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome xxxiii. v. 217 Leibnitz..speaks of God as a pure immaterial actuality, actus purus.

1878 S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Refl. ii. 12 Pure energy, actus purus, without anything merely potential.

1946 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. ii. i. 47 St. Thomas Aquinas threw overboard the conception of divine substance and defined God in terms of activity, as actus purus.

2001 A. W. Bartlett Cross Purposes vi. 252 This is actus purus as revealed by the cross, and it is far removed from the cold sovereignty of action that belongs to metaphysics.

2. A mental act uncontaminated by elements of sensory awareness.

ΚΠ

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xii. 474 The conceptualists..invent..as the vehicle of the knowledge of universals, an actus purus intellectûs, or an Ego, whose function is treated as quasi-miraculous...The nominalists..dislike actus puros.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 245 They are known, these relations,..by an actus purus of Thought, Intellect, or Reason.

1902 J. M. Baldwin Devel. & Evol. viii. 115 The only resort left to the theory that consciousness is some sort of an actus purus is to hold that it directs brain discharges.

1997 M. J. Hall tr. L. S. Vygotsky Coll. Wks. IV. ii. 35 In imageless thinking devoid of all sensory traces, not dependent on speech, researchers saw the actus purus, a purely mental act.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	actus purus
释义	actus purusn. Brit. /ˈaktəs ˈpjʊərəs/, U.S. /ˈæktəs ˈp(j)ʊrəs/ Forms: α. 1500s– actus purus, 1800s actus puros (plural). β. 1700s purus actus. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin actus purus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin actus purus pure act (a1274 in Thomas Aquinas) < classical Latin āctus (see act n.) + pūrus pure adj., after ancient Greek ἐνέργεια energy n.For Aquinas's use compare:a1274 St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theol. i. 14. 2 Cum igitur Deus nihil potentialitatis habeat, sed sit actus purus. In plural form actus puros after the Latin accusative plural form. In β. forms after pure act at act n. 4. Philosophy. 1. Pure action, unmixed with potentiality or passivity; an instance of this. Cf. act n. 4.Frequently used by Scholastic philosophers to describe God. ΚΠ 1598 S. Gosson Trumpet of Warre sig. D4 God is..aboue all, and ouer all Actus purus, so ful of actiuitie, that none is able to inflict any passion vpon him. 1623 G. Fletcher Reward of Faithfull i. iii. 67 The prerogatiue royall of Diuinity, to consist not of Act and Power,..but to be Actus Purus, All Act and Essence without any reference of time, or difference of qualitie. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xxii. 162 An accident is an actus purus. c1705 G. Berkeley Commonplace Bk. in Wks. (1871) IV. 450 The substance of Spirit we do not know..it being a purus actus. 1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome xxxiii. v. 217 Leibnitz..speaks of God as a pure immaterial actuality, actus purus. 1878 S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Refl. ii. 12 Pure energy, actus purus, without anything merely potential. 1946 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. ii. i. 47 St. Thomas Aquinas threw overboard the conception of divine substance and defined God in terms of activity, as actus purus. 2001 A. W. Bartlett Cross Purposes vi. 252 This is actus purus as revealed by the cross, and it is far removed from the cold sovereignty of action that belongs to metaphysics. 2. A mental act uncontaminated by elements of sensory awareness. ΚΠ 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xii. 474 The conceptualists..invent..as the vehicle of the knowledge of universals, an actus purus intellectûs, or an Ego, whose function is treated as quasi-miraculous...The nominalists..dislike actus puros. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 245 They are known, these relations,..by an actus purus of Thought, Intellect, or Reason. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Devel. & Evol. viii. 115 The only resort left to the theory that consciousness is some sort of an actus purus is to hold that it directs brain discharges. 1997 M. J. Hall tr. L. S. Vygotsky Coll. Wks. IV. ii. 35 In imageless thinking devoid of all sensory traces, not dependent on speech, researchers saw the actus purus, a purely mental act. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598
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