passive reason
Americannoun
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All the lower faculties perish with the body, including the passive reason.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
But he denies that the passive reason is perishable, not wishing entirely to depersonalise man.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
The lower is called passive reason, the higher active reason.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
The passive reason is the faculty which rises through discursive thinking to knowledge.
From Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages by William Ralph Inge
Averroes teaches that it is possible for the passive reason to unite itself with the Active Reason, and that this union may be attained or prepared for by ascetic purification and study.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
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