Sentence examples for intellect moves from inspiring English sources

Even though the intellect moves the will by presenting the object to be desired, the will itself has a natural inclination toward the good.

I, q. 7 is that the will is a self-mover and that the object grasped by the intellect moves the will only metaphorically.

Revising al-Kindi's schematization, and showing the influence of Alexander of Aphrodisias' understanding of Aristotle, Farabi posits a cognitive process in which the human intellect moves from a state of potentiality to one of actuality, acquiring in the process a discrete sum of intelligibles that it can access when desired.

The active intellect makes the possible intellect move from a state of purely potential intellection to a state of actual intellection (given by the presence in it of the intelligible species) — a state which the phantasm would not, on its own, be able to bring about in the possible intellect (cf. fol. 11vb).

Zabarella reconstructed the process of intellection on the lines of sense-perception, that is that the intelligible species, produced concurrently by the phantasma and the illuminating agent intellect, moved the possible intellect into cognition.

Yet Eckhart goes a step beyond Dietrich by expanding upon what Dietrich had given only general expression to, unfolding how the intellect actually moves in itself and therewith demonstrating what it means for the intellect to know "according to the mode of this very principle".

At a certain point, we have to leave behind our intellects and move to the place of the heart -- the place of emotion and sensation -- a place where there are no words.

With her guiding principles, integrity, energy and formidable intellect, Dr. Franco helped move our organization to the forefront in areas of developmental theory, gender studies and feminist psychoanalysis.

And while the Theology of Aristotle itself describes God as the maker of Intellect, as we move into the reception of this tradition into al-Farabi and Avicenna, we find that qua pure being and goodness God is also a pure intellect a point which adds a decidedly Aristotelian element to the description of God.

In the Renaissance, by contrast, beauty was elevated to an ideal that, inter alia, moved the intellect, by means of desire, to either perfect that which exists below it or to be perfected by that above.

On the one hand, the conceptualists: thinkers like Peter of Auriol and William of Ockham denied that what is first by commonness, "being", would be the adequate "moving object" of the intellect, for something common cannot move the intellect nor cause an intellectual cognition.