passive reason

noun

Aristotelianism.

the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.

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The lower is called passive reason, the higher active reason.

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This latent capacity is passive reason.

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All the lower faculties perish with the body, including the passive reason.

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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.

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But he denies that the passive reason is perishable, not wishing entirely to depersonalise man.

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passive obedience passive resistance

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