Significats de passive intellect en anglès

Therefore there is an active and a passive intellect in an angel.

For this knowledge is imprinted upon Christ for the perfection of the passive intellect.

Therefore there cannot be an active and a passive intellect in them, except equivocally.

Hence there is no need for admitting an active and a passive intellect in them.

But the passive intellect is an immaterial power.

Objection 1: It would seem that there is both an active and a passive intellect in an angel.

Others give the name of passive intellect to the cogitative power, which is called the "particular reason."

Now the passive intellect is said to be separate, because it is not the act of any corporeal organ.

Now, the passive intellect is said to be each thing, inasmuch as it receives the intelligible species of each thing.

Hence too, it is all things passively which intellect is impassively, and on this account Aristotle calls it passive intellect.

In subordination to the passive intellect, the external faculty, the active reason, is also to be cultivated; it deserves care, like the skin.

But it does not belong to the passive intellect to abstract the intelligible species from the phantasm, but to receive them when abstracted.

We do not, however, remember because this is impassive; but the passive intellect is corruptible, and without this the separate intellect understands nothing.

Whether There Is an Active and a Passive Intellect in an Angel?

(4) Is there in the angels an active and a passive intellect?

4: Further, the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 5) there are two things in the intellectual soul-thepassive intellect and the active intellect.