"It is a matter of [...] shifting the focus of knowledge towards what I would call an ethical emphasis: the subject is the subject of life, behaviour, moral feelings – and here the “subject” should also be understood in a passive sense, whereby the self experiences sensations, actions and feelings for which it is not itself responsible, which occur within it and belong to it but are not originated by it, to which it is subject, in fact. So perhaps “active” and “passive” are no longer opposed as we are accustomed to thinking, and the subject-passivity is that paradoxical subject that withdraws but continues to be the intrusive yet necessary tenant [...]."
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Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo (4 January 1936 – 19 September 2023) was an Italian philosopher and politician.
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