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Receptive Reason: Alexander of Aphrodisias on Material Intellect.

According to Alexander of Aphrodisias, our potential intellect is a purely receptive capacity. Alexander also claims that, in order for us to actualise our intellectual potentiality, the intellect needs to abstract what is intelligible from enmattered perceptible objects. Now a problem emerges: How...

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Published in:Phronesis Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 170 - 191
Main Author: Tuominen, Miira
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers Apr2010
Subjects:
Intellect
Alexander, of Aphrodisias, fl. 3rd century
Cognition
Abstract thought
Psychology
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