passive reason

noun Aristotelianism.

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

Compare active reason.

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"The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice."

-George Santayana