| Title | Averroes’ Doctrine of Material Intellect in the Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2021 |
| Journal | mevzu |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 39-66 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, De anima, Intellect |
| Author(s) | Musa Duman |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Averroes was fully aware of the fact that Aristotle’s account of intellect as propounded in De Anima was incomplete. This meant that the key facet of Aristotle’s thought was fraught with gaps. Averroes made repeated attempts in his commentaries on De Anima to fill the gaps. The problem for Averroes was this: “if human beings are enmattered entities, how will anything more than sense perception be possible?” Averroes believes that finally in his Long Commentary on De Anima he has achieved a full and coherent account of thinking and understanding that centers on a new notion of the material intellect, according to which, together with the active intellect, there is also a distinct material intellect, numerically one for all human beings. The present article explores in detail this idea of material intellect. It is shown that material intellect, for Averroes, functions as the transpersonal, non-particular and non empirical subject required for the production and containment of universal meanings. The idea seems to aim at connecting consistently the embodied, sensible forms of human cognitive experience with the noetic, conceptual element of knowledge within a basically ontological account. |
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| Title | Rational Explanation of the Relationship between the Material Intellect and the Active Intellect from the Perspective of Averroes |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | International Journal of Islamic Thought |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 13-16 |
| Categories | Intellect, Psychology, Aristotle |
| Author(s) | Davoud Zandi |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect from Averroes’ perspective is an important and yet complicated part of his philosophy. His views on these issues are ambiguous since they are derived from the Aristotle’s theories which seem obscure in this regard. The aim of the present study is to discover Averroes’ final theory on the relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect and their connection to human soul. Reviewing various theories of Averroes on this issue, this study shows that despite ambiguity in his explanations, his final theory is that he believes these two intellects exist apart from human soul. Considering the relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect, he believes that in some aspects both of them are the same, yet they are different in some other aspects that is, regarding their acts, they are different because the active intellect acts as a creator of forms while the material intellect is just a receiver of the forms. Nevertheless, they are the same, since the material intellect achieves perfection through the active intellect |
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| Title | Averroes’ Doctrine of Material Intellect in the Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2021 |
| Journal | mevzu |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 39-66 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, De anima, Intellect |
| Author(s) | Musa Duman |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Rational Explanation of the Relationship between the Material Intellect and the Active Intellect from the Perspective of Averroes |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | International Journal of Islamic Thought |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 13-16 |
| Categories | Intellect, Psychology, Aristotle |
| Author(s) | Davoud Zandi |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect from Averroes’ perspective is an important and yet complicated part of his philosophy. His views on these issues are ambiguous since they are derived from the Aristotle’s theories which seem obscure in this regard. The aim of the present study is to discover Averroes’ final theory on the relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect and their connection to human soul. Reviewing various theories of Averroes on this issue, this study shows that despite ambiguity in his explanations, his final theory is that he believes these two intellects exist apart from human soul. Considering the relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect, he believes that in some aspects both of them are the same, yet they are different in some other aspects that is, regarding their acts, they are different because the active intellect acts as a creator of forms while the material intellect is just a receiver of the forms. Nevertheless, they are the same, since the material intellect achieves perfection through the active intellect |
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