Action and passion are inseparable reciprocal effects
Evidence
In themselves the two fictitious entities, Action and Passion, are not only correspondent, but inseparable. No action without passion – no passion without action; – no action on the one part without passion on the other. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 438
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s library themes of agency and being acted upon — resonates with Foucault’s power-subject relation in the panoptic framework. — connects to: Cooperation has no single solution; motivations combine and overdetermine action; Life and action are identical in nature as transcended transcendence; Desire to have and desire to be are inseparable routes to one goal — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1385 (+1 more)
Related
- Erotic arousal and desire to please are inseparably linked (similarity 0.79)
- Life and action are identical in nature as transcended transcendence (similarity 0.78)