Exact(10)
However much God is the final cause of intellection, He is not directly involved in the entire process, a sanctified Agent Intellect being His intermediary to man.
There is no doubt he has great intellect, being able to operate with some of the best players in the world and even to enhance them but also getting the best out of the group when he does not have the best players to work with.
Specifically, it is the theoretical intellect that has this status, the practical intellect being subsidiary to it.
It is, however, for Averroes in the Middle Commentary, but the substrate of this separate substance, the Agent Intellect being its full and eternally actual expression.
In the case of the intellect, being in its widest generality is such, as only that which is can be known.
Echoing a Neoplatonic hierarchy of being, Farabi ranks the intelligible order of our sub-lunar world, the Agent Intellect being at the top and prime matter at the bottom.
Similar(48)
In fact, the intellect is the first being in which universal matter and form are conjoined.
Intellect is the sphere of real being, identified with the Platonic Forms, which are the thoughts of a universal intellect.
The agent intellect is directed upward and knows spiritual beings in its own essence.
The material intellect is a temporary, discrete appearance in human beings of the eternal and always actual Agent intellect.
My intellect was failing.
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