"It's about having the intellect to take it on board then go and execute it.
It relates to the US because their incoming president has promised actively, determinedly to bring about the worst-case scenario, acting on the now familiar, pre-enlightenment logic that because it's beyond the limits of his intellect to comprehend it, climate change doesn't exist.
That is a belief that Muslims and atheists alike would contest, but Benedict used his well-honed Germanic intellect to argue it with vigour.
He's just a reckless, temperamentally unfit, opportunist who's in WAY over head and lacks the intellect to even realize it — which is scary enough.
"It certainly wouldn't be a challenge for you, with your intellect, to outwit me, would it?" Soering caught himself.
The entrepreneur is someone obsessed with his creation, who applies the full force of his intellect to protect and sustain it.
"He was a remarkable intellectual with the courage to allow that intellect to take him wherever it would go," said Mr. Kerrey, now president of New School University.
His band the Talking Heads broke all sorts of barriers against the application of the intellect to rock music (though it doesn't take a genius to figure out that working with the Parliament-Funkadelic keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell is a good idea).
The Istanbul manuscript also includes one of the few copies of al-Kindi's On the Intellect to survive in Arabic (it is also preserved in Latin translation).
Presumably, then, Plutarch assumes the existence of a divine soul, guided by statements in Plato Philebus 30c, Sophist 248d-249a, Timaeus 46d-e, according to which the intellect, to the extent that it implies life, requires the presence of the principle of life, namely soul (Plat. Quest. 1002F).
