Power to act

Power to act is a being’s effective capacity to produce effects in accordance with its nature, increased by favourable encounters.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 725 passages across 14 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics, Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: puissance d’agir, power to act, potentia agendi