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HoP 151 - Single Minded - Averroes on the Intellect

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Universal Intelligence

The failure of Evarouise's theory to provide for personal immortality was one of the main reasons Aquinas found it totally unacceptable. A better objection, I think, would be that Evarouises is confusing different sorts of universality. We should distinguish between two ways in which a thought could be universal. On the one hand, it might be a universal act of thinking, one shared by everyone. On the other hand, the content of the thought might be universal.

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