Alberta Wielkiego koncepcja intelektu możnościowego i czynnego a ujęcie Tomasza z Akwinu

• Authors: Michał Zembrzuski

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The Concept of Possible and Active Intellect in Philosophical Texts of Albert the Great and in the Context of Thomas Aquinas’ Thought

Abstracts

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The aim of this article is to present the concept of the possible and active intellect in the philosophical texts of Albert the Great. Subsequently, to note to what extent the divisions concerning the intellect were adopted by Thomas Aquinas. In his early work De homine, there is a presentation of various concepts from the Peripatetic tradition, which Albert interprets in his own way, using mainly the settlements of Avicenna and Algazel. It is noteworthy that, apart from the discussions that Averroes led, Albert the Great was the first to present a comprehensive account, while emphasizing that the solutions in some authors were divergent. In his treatise De anima, on the other hand, recognizing the importance of the solutions of Aristotle himself, in whom exclusively there were two intellects, he begins a critique of the alternative interpretations operating among the Peripatetics. At the same time, he develops the issue of the possible and active intellect, seeing that what happened next with this concept should always be reduced to the original Aristotelian distinction. In this work, the overall concept of the four intellects already appears, three of which are expressions of the gradual development of the original possibility. This will mean that Albert’s understanding of the intellect will go a long way toward showing the continuous growth of the intellect until the development of the sacred intellect (intellectus sanctus), the concept of which he also takes over from Avicenna. The treatise De intellectu et intelligibili will already be a mere synthetic justification and demonstration of specific intellectual activities that are directed toward the goal of approaching God through the form of the assimilated intellect (intellectus assimilativus).

Keywords

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Albert the Great; Thomas Aquinas; possible intellect; active intellect; intellectual cognition; peripatetic philosophy

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 261-280

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Michał Zembrzuski

• Wydział Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

• https://orcid.org/000000034647479X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.14544893

Biblioteka Nauki

56821194