Sentence examples for on the intellect from inspiring English sources

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).

In other words, dependent on the intellect of the director.

Music goes straight to the heart, it doesn't have to check in on the intellect first, so, yes, music is still important to me.

In contrast, Steiner sought a pedagogy that fostered the development of the whole child, eschewing a narrow focus on the intellect.

Because art doesn't act on the intellect alone but reaches into our deeper, unconscious selves, it doesn't matter if we understand that of course God isn't in the painting or the graven image.

Indeed, it is reasonable to say that this primary emphasis on the intellect represented the point of origin for the whole Western conception of the character of an ideally complete human being and of the intellectual and moral order within which such a person is to function.

It was finally published, together with the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and an unfinished work on politics, the Tractatus Politicus, at the instigation of some of his Collegiant friends a few months after his death in 1677.

Spinoza also treats particular emotions elsewhere, e.g., in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and the Short Treatise on God, Man and his Well-Being.

Some important thinkers of the Enlightenment – notably Shaftesbury and Rousseau – present religion as founded on natural human sentiments, rather than on the operations of the intellect.

4. One may even find some inconsistencies between "The Light of the Intellect on the Subject of Universal Knowledge" and "On Existence".

Israeli was perhaps the first Jewish philosopher to attribute prophecy to the influence of the intellect on the faculty of imagination.