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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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The Active Intellect in the Cuzari and Hallevi's Theory of Causality
Revue des études juives, 1972Various 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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Human Thinking and the Active Intellect in Aristotle
2000In 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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