Definition of "poietic" [poietic]

• Creative, formative (adjective)

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• "In the "Modern Utopia" I discuss also a lesser Rule and the modification of the Rule for women and the relation to the order of what I call the poietic types, those types whose business in life seems to be rather to experience and express than to act and effectually do."
• "a classification so precise that one can say, this man is "poietic," and that man is "base.""
• "Calling the alternative to technology poiesis, Heidegger is not at all sure whether this distinction can still be meaningful, whether the poietic can mark a difference from the technological or whether, instead, it explains itself fully within the fold of technology."