The passive intellect (Latin: intellectus possibilis; also translated as potential intellect or material intellect), is a term used in philosophy alongside...
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distinguished between the active intellect (intellectus agens), which abstracts universal concepts, and the passive intellect, which receives sensory input...
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types of intellect or nous which he believed were both necessary in order to explain human thinking. What modern scholars call the "passive intellect" is material...
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Nous (redirect from Intellect (philosophy))
between intellect and sense perception. Aristotle's remarks on the concept of what came to be called the "active intellect" and "passive intellect" (along...
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Hylomorphism (section Intellect)
the distinction between the passive intellect and the agent intellect. According to this interpretation, the passive intellect is a property of the body...
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in reality. Intellect may also refer to: Active intellect, in medieval philosophy General intellect, in Marxist theory Passive intellect, in philosophy...
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the active and passive intellect, where the passive intellect receives the forms of things in order to be known, and the active intellect then turns possible...
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sense-perception and self-motion (action). Humans have all these as well as intellect. Aristotle holds that the soul (psyche, ψυχή) is the form, or essence...
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philosophy thus kind of intellect also called as passive intellect. Aristotle, in his "On the Soul" believes that human intellect at first is just a receptive...
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New York: Ungar (1987), 81–88. Hiltunen, Ari, Aristotle in Hollywood. Intellect (2001). ISBN 1-84150-060-7. Ηöffe, O. (ed.), Aristoteles: Poetik, (Klassiker...
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Active intellect Antiperistasis Essence Eternity of the world Four causes Hexis Horror vacui Hylomorphism Hypokeimenon Minima naturalia Ousia Passive intellect...
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concludes that the human function is some kind of excellent exercise of the intellect. And, since Aristotle thinks that practical wisdom rules over the character...
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celestial intellects. Already in early Neo-Platonic commentaries on Aristotle, these intellects have been compared to light. Al-Fabari depicted the passive intellect...
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the so-called 'agent intellect', an intellect distinct from the 'passive intellect', the supposed focus of discussion up until this passage. This view...
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essence and existence, and opposes the Thomistic doctrine of active and passive intellect. His scepticism to which his ontological parsimony request leads appears...
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