
HoP 151 - Single Minded - Averroes on the Intellect
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of the Material Intellect
Averuis says that there is only one human capacity for universal knowledge. The word material doesn't necessarily mean we are literally dealing with a physical object, he writes. A related view was proposed by his esteemed fellow Andalusian philosopher, Ibn Baja. He associated the material intellect with the imagination where we keep and manipulate particular images.
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