The Unicity of the Active Intellect
Author : Paul G. Berge
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Paul G. Berge
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725225255
Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606085093
Author : Michael Durrant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317377168
Originally published in 1993. This book presents an amended version of R.D. Hick's classic translation of Aristotle's "De Anima" Books 2 and 3, with pertinent extracts from Book 1, together with an introduction and six papers by prominent international Aristotelian scholars. The editor brings together up-to-date discussions of Aristotle's "De Anima", examining central topics such as the nature of perception, perception and thought, thinking and the intellect, the nature of the soul and the relation between body and soul. These papers draw attention to the importance and value of Aristotle's original contributions both to these topics and to philosophical psychology in general. They show the relevance of Aristotle's ancient classical philosophy to contemporary philosophical debate. This book also examines the key issues of Aristotle's thesis and aims to demonstrate its enduring significance. The "De Anima" is placed within a wider Aristotelian framework, and also within a more comprehensive structure, as a contribution to philosophical development and advance.
Author : Gerald J. Wilwert
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Francis Palmer Clarke
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Intellect
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Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780888442833
No Aristotelian doctrine had a greater influence on medieval philosophy and theology than that of the agent, or active, intellect. This influence, however, was mediated by a long tradition of exegesis in which the Greek commentaries of later antiquity played a dominant role. The two commentaries presented here were known to have been influential in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The first is a short treatise called the "De intellectu", attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias; the second a paraphrase of Aristotle's "De anima" (3.4-8) by Themistius, which also includes a major interpretation of "De anima" (3.5), the chapte on the active intellect.
Author : Erick Raphael Jiménez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1107194180
A fresh interpretation of this important and widely misunderstood concept as an acquired ability to make principles and essences intelligible.
Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780809100668
In this second volume of my history of philosophy I had originally hoped to give an account of the development of philosophy throughout the whole period of the Middle Ages, understanding by medieval philosophy and philosophic thought and systems which were elaborated between the Carolingian renaissance in the last part of the eight century A.S. and the end of the fourteenth century.
Author : Anthony J. Lisska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191083666
Anthony J. Lisska presents a new analysis of Thomas Aquinas's theory of perception. While much work has been undertaken on Aquinas's texts, little has been devoted principally to his theory of perception and less still on a discussion of inner sense. The thesis of intentionality serves as the philosophical backdrop of this analysis while incorporating insights from Brentano and from recent scholarship. The principal thrust is on the importance of inner sense, a much-overlooked area of Aquinas's philosophy of mind, with special reference to the vis cogitativa. Approaching the texts of Aquinas from contemporary analytic philosophy, Lisska suggests a modest 'innate' or 'structured' interpretation for the role of this inner sense faculty. Dorothea Frede suggests that this faculty is an 'embarrassment' for Aquinas; to the contrary, the analysis offered in this book argues that were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas's philosophy of mind would be an embarrassment. By means of this faculty of inner sense, Aquinas offers an account of a direct awareness of individuals of natural kinds—referred to by Aquinas as incidental objects of sense—which comprise the principal ontological categories in Aquinas's metaphysics. By using this awareness of individuals of a natural kind, Aquinas can make better sense out of the process of abstraction using the active intellect (intellectus agens). Were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas would be unable to account for an awareness of the principal ontological category in his metaphysics.