Sentence examples for eternal intellect from inspiring English sources

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 way that identity is maintained is by each and every Form being thought by an eternal Intellect.

Siger, in his first and most explicitly Averroistic work on the soul, argues that the separate and eternal intellect is united to the body only in an operational union and that the true form of the body is the sensitive soul (Quaest. in tertium de anima, esp. q. 3 and 9).

He does so on the grounds that all embodied or enmattered intelligible reality is an image of its eternal paradigm in Intellect.

But that still leaves us with the very good question of why an eternal and immutable Intellect is necessarily postulated along with these Forms.

In the first case, a mode of cognition, such as belief, images Intellect's eternal state by being a representational state.

Intellect is an eternal instrument of the One's causality (see V 4. 1, 1-4; VI 7. 42, 21-23).

Something of Platonism, nonetheless, survived in Aristotle's system in his beliefs that the reality of anything lay in a changeless (though wholly immanent) form or essence comprehensible and definable by reason and that the highest realities were eternal, immaterial, changeless self-sufficient intellects which caused the ordered movement of the universe.

This involved Aristotle in a threefold blindness: he taught that the world is eternal, that all men share one agent intellect (the active principle of understanding), and that there are no rewards or punishments after death.

Thus Being, Life, and Intellect are phases in the eternal self-determination of the ultimate reality.

But he also denied that the eternal truths are fixed in God's intellect.