Sentence examples for one intellect from inspiring English sources

During this time he was caught up in magisterial duties of unusual scope and was writing such polemical works as On the Eternity of the World and On There Being Only One Intellect.

Numenius' system of three principles of reality, similar to Plotinus' hypostases of One, Intellect and Soul, was constructed on the basis of accounts of the intelligible world and its primacy, and of the soul as a spiritual substance essentially related to that world, in Plato.

The latter realm contains three "hypostases" (three different ontological levels), the One, Intellect and Soul.

The hierarchy of hypostases the One, Intellect and Soul has already been sketched.

With Plotinus, Proclus recognizes three fundamental levels of reality called 'hypostases' (or self-subsistent entities): One, Intellect, and Soul.

Another influence may have been the Neoplatonist Plotinus' (204 70 CE) triad of the One, Intellect, and Soul, in which the latter two mysteriously emanate from the One, and "are the One and not the One; they are the one because they are from it; they are not the One, because it endowed them with what they have while remaining by itself" (Plotinus Enneads, 85).

To do so purely on intellect would be one thing, but to purposely structure a product with substandard collateral (i.e. mortgage collateral that was, in layman's terms, toxic) insured that this fund would make money as the pool of mortgage securities was guaranteed to decline in value.

In our study, graduates who chose psychiatry scored significantly higher on the negative factor 'had to do something', but also on the factor 'using one's intellect to help others', and on the 'lifestyle' factor, supporting previous findings [ 31].

While Schopenhauer refers to a kind of self-consciousness that remains in the experience of the beautiful, the fact that (1) one is somehow freeing one's intellect from the service of the will, and (2) one's perception is no longer in the service of the individual's will are not themselves present to mind in his account of the beautiful.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party.

In a later letter he wrote, "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.