Sentence examples for intellect knowing from inspiring English sources

For Aristotle's description of God as a First Mover and as an intellect knowing itself, cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics Bk. 12, chapter 7 (1072b10ff).

This author adopts from Avicenna the first three levels of intellect, the first being pure potentiality, the second knowing first propositions, the third conclusions, and combines it with teachings from Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (I.3 and II.19) about the intellect knowing axioms and principles.

Although Burley seems to accept the existence of a separate material intellect, unique to the whole human species, he emphasizes the fact that without the contribution of elementary thought, which provides us with the phantasm, the material intellect cannot be united to the active intellect in knowing.

For Maimonides, God is a pure knower described in Aristotelian terms as purely actualized intellect and as the act of knowing that knows itself.

Your sparkling eyes and beaming smile radiated your kindness and keen intellect that made knowing you a special gift.

Spinoza's God is an "infinite intellect", (Ethics 2p11c) all knowing, (2p3) and capable of loving both himself and us, insofar as we are part of his perfection.

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 partial agreement with Thomas Wilton, who had been his socius in Paris, he maintained that our intellect is capable of knowing singulars qua singulars (sub propria ratione singularis) primarily and directly (primo et directe), and not simply as items belonging to a certain species or type.

Bloom's answer was to deepen the study of the American founders and to renew a classical pedagogy that weaves eros and intellect into the love of knowing and natural virtues.

The activating cause needed to bring man from a state of potential to a state of actual knowing is the active intellect (sometimes translated as "agent" intellect).

Finally, the universal is the object of the intellect by exclusion insofar as the intellect is the only faculty capable of knowing it.