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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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A Note on Stumpf’s History of Active Intellection

2020
Carl 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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Randall's Interpretation of the Aristotelian “Active Intellect”

Dialogue, 1971
Aristotle'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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Intellect and Intellectual Activity in Buridan’s Psychology

2017
Zupko’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

2019
The 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 ...
Galina I. Egorova, Natalya I. Loseva, Olga A. Ivanova, Bibinur M. Chubarova, Olga M. Demidova   +4 more
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Averroes on the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought

1992
Abstract Although he repeatedly revised his position on the active intellect’s role as a cause of sublunar existence, Averroes remained firm throughout his career regarding the active intellect’s nature. Like his predecessors among the Arabic Aristotelians, he consistently construed it as an incorporeal substance transcending the ...
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Averroes On Emanation And On The Active Intellect As A Cause Of Existence

1992
Abstract The present chapter will examine Averroes’ attempts to determine, first, the causal connections obtaining within the realm of incorporeal intelligences, and, secondly, the active intellect’s role as a cause of existence in the sublunar realm.
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1996
Everett K. Rowson, Herbert A. Davidson
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect.

The Philosophical Review, 1997
Richard C. Taylor, Herbert A. Davidson
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Human Thinking and the Active Intellect in Aristotle

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 ...
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