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Perplexity engulfs us when we first consider Aristotle's concept of the intellect. It is stretched between two poles--the psycho - logical activity of a creature whose soul is the form of its body and the activity of a deity which has neither body nor soul. Human thought of necessity employs imagery, yet divine thought thinks itself. The Aristotelian notion of intellect is a genuinely difficult one to comprehend and its elusiveness has been compounded by the failure to take account of the nuances of "v00ç" (intellect) as used by Aristotle. N 6 Tj CT L is Plato's term for the intuition of the highest genera or forms.1 Until fairly recently commentators simply imported this Platonic concept into the Aristotelian corpus.2 Many of Aristotle's actual statements about voug were glossed over, as a result, or interpreted in a manner which made his positions seem puzzling at best and inconsistent at worst.3 Then in the 1970's, Kosman's paper on the Posterior Analytics initiated the movement to re-evaluate Aristotle's employment of v 00 in epistemic contexts.4 Yet to date surprisingly little work has been done on the psychological concept of vox) g. 5 I hope to remedy this situation by examining
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1986
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