• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 superior...
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    entirely misconceived the Aristotelian theory of the active and the passive intellect. In On the Immortality of the Soul Pomponazzi argued specifically...
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  • active intellect with being the "unmoved mover" and God. Nevertheless, as Davidson remarks: Just what Aristotle meant by potential intellect and active...
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  • active intellect, which is what actually makes us understand. Finally, what is abstracted from the active intellect is placed into the passive intellect which...
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  • Calculators Oxford Franciscan school Palla Strozzi Paolo da Pergola Passive intellect Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople Paul of Venice Peripatetic...
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  • nature, in intellection we are detached from nature, and in imagination re-united with nature. If we make passive understanding (intellection)- the power...
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  • (The Theories Concerning the Material Intellect), in which Bedersi gives the diverse opinions on the Passive Intellect as expounded by Aristotle in De Anima...
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  • Parmenides - Parrhesia - Parts of Animals - Pasicles of Thebes - Passive intellect - Patañjali - Pathos - Patro the Epicurean - Paulus Persa - Pelagius...
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    Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism, commonly expressed as deprecation of education and...
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    cause of all other potentialities. From this Intellect, a third Intellect is produced up to the tenth Intellect, which in turn influences the elements and...
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    yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the Divine...
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    befriended adult males. Xitco reported the ability of dolphins to eavesdrop passively on the active echolocative inspection of an object by another dolphin...
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    practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way. In practice, the two often overlap. Applied arts largely...
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    the human intellect to think about something, the First Intellect must already be thinking about it. Therefore, he says that the First Intellect must always...
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    cases passive. In so far as it has adequate ideas it is necessarily active, and in so far as it has inadequate ideas, it is necessarily passive. The fourth...
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    Koan school achieved greater success by applying general diagnoses and passive treatments. Its focus was on patient care and prognosis, not diagnosis...
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