Sentence examples for an individual intellect from inspiring English sources

You create yourself as an individual intellect and that's what counts, and we will invite you into membership into a universal human community of advanced culture.

In order to defend the Christian dogma of personal immortality, Philoponus broke with the common Aristotelian and Stoic interpretation of a single universal mind operative in all people and taught that each person possesses an individual intellect.

Beyond the individual intellect there lies a universal (though Farabi does not call it such) Active (or Agent) Intellect (al-'aql al-fa'âl).

cit., pp. 39 72, taking the developmental explanation of Avicenna's views propounded by Gutas (see the preceding note), considers Avicenna as affirming, in his later compositions, a more substantial role for the individual intellect in abstraction, the active intellect's emanative activity being much diminished, if not absent entirely.

If there is a key to the convergence among these authors, it lies, first of all, in their insistence on the bodily and communal character of resurrection, a view that has long competed with a Hellenistic philosophical and especially Platonic dualism, in which an individual disembodied intellect or spirit could be saved from its corruptible and corrupting body.

It both facilitates the individual intellect's operations and, serving as an example of perfect being, draws it back towards itself through acts of intellection.

The Latin Averroists, on the other hand, had evolved a doctrine of universal (as opposed to individual) immortality, holding that the individual intellect is reabsorbed after death into the eternal intellect.

The two facilities are like chambers of the heart, working together to power not just each person's individual intellect, but – you'd hope – to help our imperfect species progress.

This external intellect is also the ultimate agent and final cause of the individual intellect.

In so doing the individual intellect lost its personality and its individual identity both of which had been given to it by its connection with a particular body.

For Farabi, the individual intellect, even when perfected, can only come close to joining with the substance of the Agent Intellect.