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...
| Publicado en: | Phronesis Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 170 - 191 |
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