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From the Passive to the Active Intellect

2015
Ursula Renz
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Human Thinking and the Active Intellect in Aristotle [PDF]

, 2000
In Book III, Chapter 5 of his De Anima, in the midst of his account of the faculty of thought, Aristotle concludes that there are, in some sense, two minds required for thinking, one which 'becomes all things', and another which 'makes all things'. The second of these --commonly called the "active intellect" has always been a source of puzzlement for ...
Jonescu, Daren
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Intellect Versus Active Intellect: Plotinus and Avicenna

2003
Rahim Acar
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What is Aristotle’s Active Intellect?

, 2019
In this paper, I argue for a new and original interpretation of the Active Intellect in ...
Diego Zucca
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On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it is Clothed with the Body

Платоновские исследования, 2022
Вниманию читателя предлагается комментированный перевод единственного сохранившегося философского труда Абу Мухаммада Абдаллаха Ибн Рушда (Аверроэса-младшего), посвященного ключевой апории арабской перипатетической ноэтики - соединению () активного и материального интеллектов.
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Aquinas and the Active Intellect

Philosophy, 1992
Anyone who comes to read some of Aquinas' works and at the same time looks around for modern discussions of them will be struck by two things: first, the greater part of the latter is the product of American and European Catholic neo-scholasticism; and second, that, with a few distinguished exceptions,1 what is contributed by writers of the analytical ...
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Survey of the Active Intellect in Transcendent Theosophy

Comparative Islamic Studies, 2019
Mull? ?adr? (1572–1640) can, as we will argue in this article, be considered the greatest philosopher in Islamic world, because he has tried to eliminate the shortcomings of all previous schools. He claimed that man unites with the Active Intellect in the process of his intellectual perception, which is the highest perceptive status of the soul.
Maryam Salem, Maryam Kheradmand
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What is Aristotle’s Active Intellect?

2018
In this paper, I argue for a new and original interpretation of the Active Intellect in Aristotle.
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Alfarabi On Emanation, The Active Intellect, And Human Intellect

1992
Abstract The present chapter deals primarily with four works of Alfarabi which offer a more or less full treatment of the subjects I am considering: al-Madina al-Faq,ila and al­ Siyasa al-Madaniyya, which will be treated as representing one position; a work entitled The Philosophy of Aristotle, which suggests a second position; and ...
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Avicenna On Emanation, The Active Intellect, And Human Intellect

1992
Abstract In the present chapter I assume that Avicenna’s genuine works all reflect a single consistent outlook concerning the issues discussed, although Avicenna sometimes does slip into inconsistency in details. Like Alfarabi, Avicenna envisions a translunar region comprising nine primary spheres: an outermost, diurnal sphere, the ...
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