The distinction between activity and passivity proved to be a fundamental determination of thought throughout the history of Western philosophy. It is the very same pair of concepts which is reflected in the dominant elements of the voice systems of the major occidental languages, namely, the active and passive voices. Linguistic research has shown, however, that these systems formed themselves in the course of a not so ancient history, and that the middle and active voices, which characterized the primordial Indo-European languages, promoted a thinking primarily in terms of event and agent, verb and subject, as opposed to the occidental predominance of thinking in terms of agent and patient, subject and object. “Pure events” take central role in such a primordial view: they constitute the very “medium” in relation to which “objects” and “subjects” become conceivable. This insight into the elemental “mediality” of the human condition enables the charting of a medially conceived, tripartite typology of human agency, beyond the Greek distinction between poiesis and praxis. It also enables an exposition of the elemental layers of awareness―beyond the “intentionality of consciousness”―according to the inherent order of the different forms of voices in which they operate.