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The Active Intellect of Averroes

2015
Averroes (1126–98) developed a concept of what can be called “unconscious thought” in the theory of active intellect in the philosophy of intellect, commenting on the De anima of Aristotle. Union with the active intellect, the final entelechy, is the highest bliss in life.
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Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Active Intellect

2006
Aristotle 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
Miira Tuominen
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The Active Intellect in the Cuzari and Hallevi's Theory of Causality

Revue Des Etudes Juives, 1972
Various passages in Hallevi's Cuzari present an account of the views of the "philosophers," and a careful analysis of this account shows it to be both eclectic and imprecise. Hallevi clearly did not follow a single philosophic source or in fact any combination of known literary sources.
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From the Passive to the Active Intellect

2015
Ursula Renz
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Intellect Versus Active Intellect: Plotinus and Avicenna

2003
Rahim Acar
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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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