Sentence examples for intellect and role from inspiring English sources

Giles had been represented by the card Sophus, a symbol of his intellect and role as teacher; he is killed by being scalped.

This interest was apparently raised by Maimonides, who quoted and commented on some passages of this book about the theologians' idea of the human intellect and the role of the active intellect in his Guide (see what has been written by Pines in Moses Maimonides 1962, 1 lxxxii-lxxxiii).

John I. Goodlad, a leading intellect and statesman on the role of education in a democracy: The small lens of observing problems of schooling narrows the scope of analysis and remediation.

Moreover, he emphasized Scotus' voluntarism (the primacy of will over intellect), and attributed a greater role to the juridical element in the theological concepts of God, creation, and revelation.

Thus, while both intellect and will have important roles to play in the production of a free action, freedom is primarily a function of the will.

Once free, he displayed his sharp intellect and political acumen in his role as protector of the Protestant churches.

What is the role of intellect and judgment in art that, as Schiller put it, 'robs us of our emotional freedom'?

Relevant to Islamic and Maimonidean ideas about the active intellect's role in knowing and prophecy in particular is Aristotle's additional description of this active intellectual principle as analogous to light.

In the debate on the respective roles of intellect and will in the determination of human action Giles is known to have taken and intermediate position, a sort of compromise between the theory of Henry of Ghent and that of Geoffrey of Fontaines.

This resonates with Plutarch's more general view (inspired by Plato), according to which the soul has a mediating role between the intellect and the body or sensible reality (see below, sect. 5).

Turning to Averroes' mature view (as found in his Long Commentary on De Anima), he advances the idea not only of a shared active intellect, but of a shared material intellect, revealing, as Taylor argues, elements of al-Farabi and Themistius in his sense of the active intellect's role in enabling the human intellect to reliably abstract from the outside world.