The Distinction Between Productive and Contemplative Knowledge – Part I.
Aristotle distinguishes between productive and contemplative knowledge in The Metaphysics (Book XI:7). In productive knowledge, the source of motion is in the one who makes, rather than in the thing being made. For example, when one exercises one’s productive knowledge by making a bookshelf, the source of motion is in the carpenter, not the bookshelf. […]
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