Indeed, it is reasonable to say that this primary emphasis on the intellect represented the point of origin for the whole Western conception of the character of an ideally complete human being and of the intellectual and moral order within which such a person is to function.
For Lewis the ability to have right sentiments is what separates humans from animals, but such training of the heart training of the emotions, what Lewis refers to as the "chest"—is lacking in modern education, with its emphasis on the intellect.
In this sense, it is arguably conceptually appropriate to align even Ibn Gabirol's most emphatic sense of the dual "matter-with-form" composition of Intellect (or, relatedly, his emphasis on a grade of matter "prior to" Intellect) with even Plotinus' staunchest insistence on the unity of Intellect (as for Plotinus, the unity of Intellect, as compared with the unity of the One, is dual by nature).
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Pope, with his emphasis on the role of the intellect in art and his flair for social satire, who first attracted Rakoff to rhyming couplets.
versatile Idealist philosopher and teacher whose emphasis on individuality and will, rather than intellect, strongly influenced 20th-century philosophy in the United States.
Josiah Royce, (born Nov. 20, 1855, Grass Valley, Calif., U.S. died Sept. 14, 1916, Cambridge, Mass ., versatile Idealist philosopher and teacher whose emphasis on individuality and will, rather than intellect, strongly influenced 20th-century philosophy in the United States.
Equality is not the opposite of intellect; it depends on intellect for its true realization.
