the active intellect (Latin: intellectus agens; also translated as agent intellect, active intelligence, active reason, or productive intellect) is the...

Greek: νοῦς, is a concept from classical philosophy, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, for the faculty of the human mind necessary for understanding...

distinguished between the active intellect (intellectus agens), which abstracts universal concepts, and the passive intellect, which receives sensory input...

the active intellect with being the "unmoved mover" and God. Nevertheless, as Davidson remarks: Just what Aristotle meant by potential intellect and active...

philosophy alongside the notion of the active intellect in order to give an account of the operation of the intellect (nous), in accordance with the theory...

types of intellect. These are traditionally called the "passive intellect" and the "active (or agent) intellect". He says that the "active (or agent)...

in reality. Intellect may also refer to: Active intellect, in medieval philosophy General intellect, in Marxist theory Passive intellect, in philosophy...

operates in relation to the so-called active intellect, also known as agent intellect and other names. The Agent Intellect was met with positive reviews from...

immaterial interact through the Active Intellect, which is a "divine light" containing the intelligible forms. The Active Intellect reveals the universals concealed...

contemplation: self-contemplation. He also equates this concept with the active intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations...

of the immortality of the soul, and the concept of the active intellect (also known as the active intelligence). This approach to the study of nature was...

The intellect itself develops from a material intellect (al-'aql al-hayulani), which is a potentiality "that can acquire knowledge to the active intellect...

an acquired intellect, as well as an active intellect. The active intellect has no basis coming from the physical world. Acquired intellect, however, is...

of the World", traditionally associated with Metatron, as the core "Active Intellect". The Zohar describes several biblical figures as metaphors for Metatron...

heavenly world. The general connection imparted to the prophet by the active intellect is the general order of the astrological constellation. The constellation...

passive intellect of the individual human as receiving universal concepts from the celestial active intellect. Only when the individual intellect is in...

sense data. He used a variation on the Aristotelian notion of the "active intellect" (Latin: intellectus agens), which he interpreted as the ability to...

heavenly world. The general connection imparted to the prophet by the active intellect is the general order of the astrological constellation. The constellation...

and that this is the angel, or that all forms are produced by the Active Intellect; that here is the angel, the "vice-regent of the world" constantly...

chapter 2, as well as (possibly) the scholastic concept of the divine active intellect that inspires human beings with rationality. The Magician's Nephew...

a supernatural source. It is obtained from experience by means of active intellect. In Aristotle's view, universals can be instantiated multiple times...

intellect itself "possesses levels of development from the static/material intellect, that potentiality can acquire knowledge to the active intellect...

then used by the active intellect, which is what actually makes us understand. Finally, what is abstracted from the active intellect is placed into the...

mineral, vegetable, and animal, a hylic intellect which is influenced by the active intellect. This hylic intellect, which forms the rational soul, is a...

the British countryside. He was an intensely rational person with an active intellect, and I think he would be a bit disappointed with some of the fringe...

and that this is the angel, or that all forms are produced by the Active Intellect; that here is the angel, the "vice-regent of the world" constantly...

with and to become one with the active intellect, it follows necessarily that anyone who is closer to the active intellect in rank, will, because of his...

active intellect is another form Ibn Ezra describes as the passive intellect. This form of intellect is considered to be above the active intellect and...

doctrine of the intellect. The author (Philoponus or pseudo-Philoponus?) sets the theory on the role and functioning of the active intellect. On one hand...

Poietikos (The Psychology of Aristotle, in Particular His Doctrine of the Active Intellect, published 1867), and began to lecture at the University of Würzburg...