Intelligibles in act in averroes biography

Selections on will in knowing from Averroes’ Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle. Draft.

Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics

Not for distribution. (c) Richard C. Taylor, tr. Marquette University 02/11/2008

The following translations are of the Latin text,Averrois Cordubensis Commentarium Magnum in Aristotelis De Anima Libros, F. Stuart Crawford (ed.). Cambridge: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1953.

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“They confirmed this by the fact that Aristotle insisted that the agent intellect exists for us in the soul, since we seem to strip forms from matter first and then to understand them.

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To strip them is nothing but to make them intelligibles in act after they were [intelligibles] in potency, to the extent that apprehending them is nothing but receiving them. They saw that this activity of creating and generating intelligibles is due to our will and is able to be augmented in us in accord with the augmentation of the intellect which is in us, namely, the theoretical intellect.

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