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Untitled edition by Simplicius, of Cilicia.; H J Blumenthal is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas. In his commentary on Aristotle's text, 'Simplicius' insists that the intellect in question is not something transcendental but the human rational soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of the soul has never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simplicius, of Cilicia.; H J Blumenthal
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472504197
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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