Sentence examples for endowed with intellect from inspiring English sources

In opposition to the philosopher's faith, the religion of the Jewish scholar in the Kuzari is based on the fact that God may have a close, direct relationship with humans, who are not conceived primarily as beings endowed with intellect.

George was a man possessed with a certain juvenile charm, though some said not overly endowed with intellect, who had frittered away his salad days -- a rapscallion by many accounts, until he recommitted his heart to the Lord and commenced a political career as fortuitous as it was brief.

As Maimonides notes, "providence watches over everyone endowed with intellect proportionately to the measure of his intellect…" (G 3.51, 624).

Scotus then argues that a being enjoying the triple primacy is endowed with intellect and will, and that any such being is infinite.

Accordingly, the sage calls the king's attention to the familiar hierarchical structure of the empirical world, namely, the ascending orders of living beings that can be perceived by the senses plants, animals, and human beings endowed with intellect.

Idealism would be the position that there are only intellectual monads; he says that "An intellectual substance, i.e. a substance endowed with intellect, is a spirit (an intelligence, a person)….Whoever admits only spirits in this world is an idealist" (Metaphysics, §402, pp. 175 6).

The patterns revealed in this communication between agent intellect and diviner (astrologer, prophet) are from the heavenly bodies which themselves are endowed with intellects and so "apprehend the pattern that derives from them".

In his view, the fact that man is endowed with reason obliges him to use his intellect.

A major influence on him, as on several earlier poets endowed with profound intellect, such as Baudelaire and Valéry, was Edgar Allan Poe, the impact of whose essays on poetics, on cosmology, and on dreams and reveries has been immense and beneficent.

Dante was endowed with remarkable intellectual and aesthetic self-confidence.

On Photography is a study of the subject endowed with wit and wisdom, intellect and intent - it is a brilliant and profound look at the very essence of photography.