Sentence examples for intellect from the from inspiring English sources

Her work presumes a shared breadth and depth of intellect from the reader as well as a common singularity of purpose.

Two hundred years ago, the German anatomist Franz Joseph Gall dazzled the public with his science of phrenology, the practice of divining personality and intellect from the shape of the bumps on a person's head.

Crescas attacked the Aristotelian teaching of the separation of the intellect from the soul and attempted, perhaps in part under the influence of Judah ha-Levi, to refute the Aristotelian doctrine that the actualized intellect, as distinct from the soul, survives the death of the body.

So what is it that compels Olivi to drop intellect from the hylomorphic scheme?

The freedom of the intellect from the service to the individual will constitutes a sort of acting 'out of character'.

The first is to reformulate these questions by suggesting a new outlook on the world that liberates the intellect from the state of intellectual quasi-cramp that has caused the problem.

Essence is particular in that it receives its subsistence in a given suppositum (concrete individual entity) from something-other-than-itself, while it is universal in that it is abstracted by the intellect from these singular supposita, in which it exists as one in many, in order to become predicable by many.

Furthermore, if there were an agent intellect distinct from the possible intellect, it would be a natural power of the soul and so would be required for the cognition of all intelligibles, not just a certain class of them.

In terms of Agrippa's tripartite psychology, faith liberates the highest part of the human soul, mens or intellect, from bondage to the material world, and the middle part of the soul (ratio, whose choice really determines the integrity of the person) abandons its dependence on the lowest part, idolum, and is ruled by mens.

The problem is that aesthetic experience seems to require the breaking free of the intellect from its service to the will to life.

It is our "first perfection," while the Agent Intellect represents an ultimate perfection, or "final form" for us.[68] The Middle Commentary fashions the material intellect from a fusion of the views of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Themistius.