Sentence examples for concept of intellect from inspiring English sources

In that dialogue the character Socrates describes his foray into causal questions in the realm of natural science and recounts both his high expectations of and disappointment with Anaxagoras' concept of Intellect (nous) as providing the true cause of natural phenomena.

1105 1185 CE), whose mystical allegory Son of the Living Awake (Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān) and his concept of Active Intellect, made him a major exponent of mysticism in the Islamic philosophical tradition.

Another pattern associates him with the concepts of Buddhi (intellect), Siddhi (spiritual power), and Riddhi (prosperity); these qualities are sometimes personified as goddesses, said to be Ganesha's wives.

Another pattern associates him with the concepts of Buddhi (intellect), Siddhi (spiritual power), and Riddhi (prosperity); these qualities are sometimes personified as goddesses who are considered to be Ganesha's wives.

As was mentioned above, he adopted from Avicenna and Averroes the concept of an "acquired intellect" (intellectus adeptus) as the highest level of conjunction between possible and active intellect.

Philosophically, as is evident in The Letter Concerning the Intellect (Risālah fi'l-'aql), his interpretation of the concept of the four intellects paved the road for his successor Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) (981 1037 CE), who made full use of Neoplatonism.

His concept of Humanität ("humanism"), reconciling intellect and feeling, provided continuity between the Enlightenment and Weimar Classicism.

Unlike Crescas, however, Judah does not reject the Maimonidean concept of God as divine intellect.

"Earl is always pushing the idea of counter- or queer culture to ramp up the political edge and give it more of a concept and intellect," said Mr. Smigiel, who presented "Weimar New York," another of Mr. Dax's productions, in 2009.

The concept of sense integrates the dimensions of intellect and affect with how the subject produces, configures and expresses him/herself to the world (González Rey 2009).

As described, there is a parallel between the activity of memory and that of the intellect in habitu as developed by Alexander of Aphrodisias, for both retain the essential notions that form respectively the previously apprehended contents of a given particular percept (the role of memory) or of a universal concept (the intellect in habitu).