| Title | Averroes and Aquinas on the Agent Intellect’s Causation of the Intelligible |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1–60 |
| Categories | Thomas, Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Therese Scarpelli Cory |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article examines two medieval thinkers – Averroes and Aquinas – on the kind of causation exercised by the agent intellect in 'abstracting' or producing intelligibles from images in the imagination. It argues that abstraction in these thinkers should be interpreted in causal terms, as an act whereby images in the imagination, through the power of the agent intellect, educe their intelligible likeness in a receptive intellect. This Averroean-Thomistic causal approach to abstraction offers an intriguing alternative to the usual approach to abstraction as an epistemological content-sorting. The article also demonstrates the extensive common ground uniting these thinkers’ cognition theories, despite Aquinas’s well-known rejection of Averroes’s theory of separate Intellects. |
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| Title | S'unir à l'Intellect, Voir Dieu. Averroès Et la Doctrine de la Jonction au Cœur du Thomisme |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2011 |
| Journal | Arabic Sciences and Philosophy |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215–247 |
| Categories | Psychology, Commentary, Thomas |
| Author(s) | Jean-Baptiste Brenet |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The article examines the relation that Aquinas' theory of the beatific vision maintains with Averroes' noetics as presented in his Great Commentary on the De anima. Starting with his Commentary on the Sentences, in which the young Thomas Aquinas offers an explicit transposition of the philosophical intellection of separate substances into the Christian theological order, through to his later works where no mention of it is found, we will endeavour to present the exact nature of these borrowings and to evaluate their accuracy by questioning the conceptual coherence of Aquinas' gesture: could Aquinas base his conception of a vision of God by essence on a noetic construction which was originally part of a system judged both erroneous and contrary to faith? Can one concede theologically, concerning the relation between divine essence and intellect, what one refuses philosophically, concerning the relation between the separate intellect and the body? Although Aquinas and his followers, in the incipient quarrel, assert it to be so, we will indicate how the original paradoxical borrowing maintains something conceptually problematic at the heart of Aquinas' thinking. |
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| Title | "... set hominem anima". Thomas d'Aquin et la pensée humaine comme acte du composé |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2006 |
| Journal | Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 69–96 |
| Categories | Psychology, Thomas |
| Author(s) | Jean-Baptiste Brenet |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2006 |
| Journal | Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 69–96 |
| Categories | Psychology, Thomas |
| Author(s) | Jean-Baptiste Brenet |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes and Aquinas on the Agent Intellect’s Causation of the Intelligible |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1–60 |
| Categories | Thomas, Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Therese Scarpelli Cory |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article examines two medieval thinkers – Averroes and Aquinas – on the kind of causation exercised by the agent intellect in 'abstracting' or producing intelligibles from images in the imagination. It argues that abstraction in these thinkers should be interpreted in causal terms, as an act whereby images in the imagination, through the power of the agent intellect, educe their intelligible likeness in a receptive intellect. This Averroean-Thomistic causal approach to abstraction offers an intriguing alternative to the usual approach to abstraction as an epistemological content-sorting. The article also demonstrates the extensive common ground uniting these thinkers’ cognition theories, despite Aquinas’s well-known rejection of Averroes’s theory of separate Intellects. |
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| Title | S'unir à l'Intellect, Voir Dieu. Averroès Et la Doctrine de la Jonction au Cœur du Thomisme |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2011 |
| Journal | Arabic Sciences and Philosophy |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215–247 |
| Categories | Psychology, Commentary, Thomas |
| Author(s) | Jean-Baptiste Brenet |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The article examines the relation that Aquinas' theory of the beatific vision maintains with Averroes' noetics as presented in his Great Commentary on the De anima. Starting with his Commentary on the Sentences, in which the young Thomas Aquinas offers an explicit transposition of the philosophical intellection of separate substances into the Christian theological order, through to his later works where no mention of it is found, we will endeavour to present the exact nature of these borrowings and to evaluate their accuracy by questioning the conceptual coherence of Aquinas' gesture: could Aquinas base his conception of a vision of God by essence on a noetic construction which was originally part of a system judged both erroneous and contrary to faith? Can one concede theologically, concerning the relation between divine essence and intellect, what one refuses philosophically, concerning the relation between the separate intellect and the body? Although Aquinas and his followers, in the incipient quarrel, assert it to be so, we will indicate how the original paradoxical borrowing maintains something conceptually problematic at the heart of Aquinas' thinking. |
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