Human action requires both reflection and practice together

Evidence

Human activity is theory and practice; it is reflection and action. It cannot, as I stressed in chapter 2, be reduced to either verbalism or activism. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 406

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Clarifies that praxis is literally indivisible reflection-plus-action, the load-bearing definition for the reader’s redesign project.
  • XREF: connects to: Micro-level practice sustains critique when rational detachment cannot — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 533; Theory and practice reinforce each other rather than one preceding the other — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 521