The source of directiveness in an animal or plant is its soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Living things contain their own sources of motion and directiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Providential design could no longer be confused with a natural directiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

There is, therefore, a fair degree of Cabinet directiveness towards co-ordination.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There could be no normativity, no practical (choice-guiding) directiveness, unless free choices were really possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy] Reference

The Stoics based their case on directiveness, and it was therefore important to ac - count for every detail teleologically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

And by trying to treat immaterial things (such as abstract ideas) as if they were material, they confused design and directiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Several points need to be emphasized, however, in relation to this apparent conflict between therapist directiveness and client self-determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Where Plato regarded necessity and directiveness as arising from separate sources, Aristotle regarded them as arising simulta - neously within nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

It is thus apparent that the notions of “directiveness” and “nondirectiveness” are stereotypes rather than accurate pictures of therapeutic activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Teleologists opposed the notion of randomness, but began to argue less from design and more from directiveness, so mov - ing closer to Aristotle's natural teleology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

They were opposed by the atomists, who held that all three features — orderliness, complexity, and directiveness — Page 234, Volume 1 could be explained by random movements of atoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

When he defends teleology he does not argue pri - marily from directiveness, like later teleologists, but from the fact that forms and species exist; from this fact he then infers directiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He still uses Plato's double explanation — material necessity on the one hand, directiveness or “the final cause” on the other hand — but he emphasizes that both coexist in natural movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Aristotle's physics no doubt made it easier to accommodate directiveness, for he was some way from the concept of an exactly quanti - tative science, nor had he the theory that bodies are naturally inert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But modern teleology still differs from his insofar as it relies upon directiveness first, rather than upon forms, and insofar as it posits an “extra factor” that is not reducible to physics and chemistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

And what practical reasonableness requires seems to be that each of the basic human goods be treated as what it truly is: a basic reason for action amongst other basic reasons whose integral directiveness is not to be cut down or deflected by subrational passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy] Reference

Such first principles of practical reasoning direct one to actions and dispositions and arrangements that promote such intelligible goods, and that directiveness or normativity is expressed by “I should ¦” or “I ought ¦” in senses which although truly normative are only incipiently moral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law Theories] Reference

That integral directiveness is given specific (albeit highly general) articulation in principles such as the injunction to love one's neighbor as oneself; or the Golden Rule of doing for others what you would want them to do for you and not doing to others what you would not have them do to you; or the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law Theories] Reference

directiveness versus nondirectiveness, 99–100.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference