Sentence examples for material intellect from inspiring English sources

It is true that individual men could not reach an intellective knowledge of anything without the material intellect; but it is also true that the material intellect on its own, or with the mere contribution of the active intellect, would not be capable of elaborating any form of knowledge.

The forms inhere in the soul-intellect through the material intellect.

He calls it the natural way: each man has a material intellect which receives them and the intelligibles are relative to each material intellect (Asín Palacios 1942, Ittiṣâl, p. 17; 1968, p. 164).

On the other hand, the active intellect impresses on the material intellect the intelligible species, when the phantasm inhering in the elementary thought is presented to the material intellect itself.

Gersonides agrees with Alexander of Aphrodisias that immortality consists in the intellectual perfection of the material intellect.

The material intellect is a temporary, discrete appearance in human beings of the eternal and always actual Agent intellect.

Avempace is not satisfied with an indirect approach to the last intelligence and wants to reach the absolute intelligibles, with no relation to the material intellects and free of any spiritual form (particular or universal).

Even with the involvement of shared separate active and material intellects, Averroes describes the process as intrinsic to the individual human soul and as active intellect becoming "form for us" (itself understood as the human's final end) in a true conjunction or uniting of the individual human soul with the active intellect.

He attacks as inappropriate the analogies with light or the sun, and argues that the theory of the agent and material intellects is incompatible with the simplicity of the soul, as it posits these intellects as two distinct parts of the soul, one active and one receptive.

The zero-sum fluctuations of Hass's material, some intellect followed by some feeling, coolness here, warmth there, at times become a formula — more a recipe for soup than soup — but at other times yield work that, exquisitely receptive to actual happiness, has opened up new territory for the personal poem.

The zero-sum fluctuations of Hass's material, some intellect followed by some feeling, coolness here, warmth there, at times become a formula more a recipe for soup than soup but at other times yield work that, exquisitely receptive to actual happiness, has opened up new territory for the personal poem.