Bernard Williams

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

English Philosopher

Stanley Hauerwas

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

American Theologian

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.

Michel Foucault

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

French Historian

Used to emphasize that something is absolutely necessary for the existence or functioning of something else.

Core Importance

Indicates that elements are not just any part, but crucial ones that create the essence of the whole.

Not Optional

Usually appears in academic or professional settings discussing how things are formed or built.

Creation Context

Often found in technical or scientific fields, explaining how different elements come together to form something.

Formation Processes

Specific to biology; constitutive genes are continuously active and do not get turned off like other genes.

Always On Genes

Highlights that in biology, constitutive means a gene's expression is steady and unvarying.

Constitutive