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Averroistas
by
Thomas Aquinas
translated as
ON THE UNIQUENESS OF INTELLECT AGAINST
AVERROISTS
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CONTENTS/CENTER>
1. Aristotle's position on the unity of the possible intellect
2. The relation of the possible intellect to man, according
to other Peripatetics
3. Reasons in favor of the unity of the intellect
4. Refutation of the opinion that all men have one intellect
5. Answer to objections against the multiplicity of
intellects
Prooemium INTRODUCTION
Caput 1 CHAPTER 1
De sententia Aristotelis
circa unitatem
intellectus possibilis
Caput 2
De relatione intellectus
possibilis ad hominem CHAPTER II
secundum alios
Peripateticos
Caput 3
Rationes ad probandum
CHAPTER III
unitatem intellectus
possibilis
Quod autem hoc nihil sit, [64] There are three ways
patet tripliciter. Primo of showing that this
quidem, quia sic continuatio amounts to nothing. First,
intellectus ad hominem non because then the union of
esset secundum primam intellect and man would
eius generationem, ut not come into being when
Theophrastus dicit et he does, as Theophrastus
Aristoteles innuit in secundo maintains and Aristotle
Physic., ubi dicit quod indicates in Book Two of
terminus naturalis the Physics where he says
considerationis de formis that the goal of the
est ad formam, secundum naturalist’s consideration
quam homo generatur ab of forms is the form
homine et a sole. according to which man is
Manifestum est autem quod generated by man and the
terminus considerationis sun. Intellect is obviously
naturalis est in intellectu. the goal of the naturalist’s
Secundum autem dictum consideration, yet,
Averrois, intellectus non according to what
continuaretur homini Averroes says, intellect is
secundum suam not united with man from
generationem, sed his generation, but
secundum operationem through the operation of
sensus, in quantum est sense insofar as he is
sentiens in actu. Phantasia actually sensing:
enim est motus a sensu imagination is “a
secundum actum, ut dicitur movement resulting from
in libro de anima. an actual exercise of a
power of sense,” as is
said in On the Soul.
(429a1-2)
Caput 4
Reprobatur sententia
ponentium unum CHAPTER IV
intellectum in omnibus
hominibus
Caput 5
Solvuntur rationes contra CHAPTER V
pluralitatem intellectus