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HoP 151 - Single Minded - Averroes on the Intellect

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Consequences of a Veraurese's Loyalty to Aristotle

In the Aristotelian tradition, the intellect is supposed to be identical with its object. The material intellect is nothing but a capacity to take on, and indeed to become certain forms. If those forms are universal, then of course the capacity too should be universal. A veraurese's view might be taken as a lurch in the direction of neoplatonism. But it would be a complete misunderstanding of what led him to his position. He was probably a more committed Aristotelist than any other thinker of the Islamic world.

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