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    Therefore neither thinking nor thought occupies a purely active or purely passive role.

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    Both thinking and thought are simultaneously active and passive.The thinking that has been thought is retrograde — it loops back as principle, p...Thinking thinks itself as thought, making thinking active and thought passive.Thought, insofar as it thinks its own thinking, is itself active thinking.

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    The breakthrough that Eckhart attains through his theory of univocal causality is exemplified by the relation between thinking and thought. For Eckhart, thinking presupposes no origin because a presupposed origin could only be thought by thinking and hence would be a thought of thinking, that is, itself thinking. Thinking is, then, for itself a presuppositionless origin, that is, it is its own principle: principium (Echardus, In Ioh. n. 38; LW III, 32, 11: “… ipsum principium semper est intellec

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