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What is Aristotle’s Active Intellect?
2018In this paper, I argue for a new and original interpretation of the Active Intellect in Aristotle.
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Intellect and intellectual activity
2009The article deals with the influence that social relations exercise on the development of the individual's intellectual capacity.
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Alfarabi On Emanation, The Active Intellect, And Human Intellect
1992Abstract 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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Randall's Interpretation of the Aristotelian “Active Intellect”
Dialogue, 1971Aristotle's explanation of the “active intellect” inDe AnimaIII, 5 constitutes a problem for us simply because we have to take this philosopher so seriously. If he were a writer given to poetic lapses or mythical adornments to his work we could consider dismissing the whole chapter as unessential.
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Avicenna On Emanation, The Active Intellect, And Human Intellect
1992Abstract 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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A Note on Stumpf’s History of Active Intellection
2020Carl Stumpf, in his Spinozastudien, presents the Aristotelico-Scholastic thesis of the “parallelism” between mental acts and contents, i.e., the thesis that “the essential differences and divisions of the acts run in parallel to those of the contents, since they are determined in their specificity by the latter.” In his paper, Stumpf also distinguishes
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Intellect and Intellectual Activity in Buridan’s Psychology
2017Zupko’s chapter deals with transduction, the cognitive psychology of the transmission of sensory information for intellectual processing. This theory mentions three kinds of mental acts: understanding (intelligere), believing (credere), and attending to (se convertere ad). We can understand, or think, only one thought at a time, but that thought can be
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Intellectics Fundamentals in a Professional Activity of a Future Bachelor
2019The article describes a new course on “Intellectics fundamentals in a professional activity of future Bachelors” -into the curricula of Russian Universities. The following issues are solved: the reasons for a new course introduction; its contents; possibilities and forms of its introduction into the current curricula; the place of the course in the ...
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Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Active Intellect
2006Aristotle introduces the influential doctrine of the so-called active intellect in De anima III. According to Aristotle, as there are perceptible objects in reality, there are also intelligible ones, and he says that intellectual apprehension is like perceiving, something analogous to being affected by the intelligible object. Aristotle distinguishes
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