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The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980-1037) and Averroes (1126-1198), with particular attention to the way in which they addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect
• Subtitle: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect
• Author: Herbert A. Davidson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 374
• EAN: 9780195074239
• ISBN: 0195074238
• ID: 04512953
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 722 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 154 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 1992

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