To be acted upon can mean destruction or conservation

Evidence

The expression ‘to be acted upon’ has more than one meaning; it may mean either the extinction (-θρ) of one of two contraries by the other, or the maintenance (σωτηρ α) of what is potential by the agency of what is actual and already like what is acted upon, as actual to potential. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 446

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the double sense of passivity (pathos) in Aristotle — destruction vs. conservation — which grounds plasticity’s dual nature as both receiving form and giving it.
• XREF: connects to: Destruction appropriates objects more keenly than creation does. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1376; Information can produce, bypass, or actively destroy meaning — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 266; Having done something protects against the worst arbitrary destruction — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1008

Broader Connections

• Having done something protects against the worst arbitrary destruction #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1008