Sentences with phrase «pure receptivity»

Yet philosophers at least since Kant have argued with great force against just such a notion of pure receptivity and have asserted in a variety of ways that the subject is always an active participant in the process of knowing.

Sensing, therefore, for Aristotle, is an activity that presupposes passivity or being acted upon and physically altered — the passivity of matter — and the passivity of pure receptivity — the passivity of a psychic potency, the actuality of which is a psychic activity.

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What I do not find in Whitehead is any account of knowing or awareness understood as pure contemplation or passive receptivity.