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inteligencia activa Concept in classical and Medieval philosophy.
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But the light of the active intellect abstracts intelligible species from phantasms.
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Now he said that the active intellect is united to us, thus.
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Objection 1: It would seem that there is one active intellect in all.
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And this befits the active intellect inasmuch as it is immaterial.
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Objection 1: It would seem that there is no active intellect.
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The willing agent , intellect, is sent out on excursions of discovery, and unexpectedly falls in with and captures all kinds of sparkling booty.
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When this active reason is regarded as the standard of moral action, it is called by Aquinas synteresis.
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In subordination to the passive intellect, the external faculty, the active reason, is also to be cultivated; it deserves care, like the skin.
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He seems to waver about identifying the "spark" with the " active reason," but inclines on the whole to regard it as something even higher still.
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Afghanistan's still- active intelligence service had him high on its enemies list.
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Her active intelligence played restlessly behind her strained, frozen features; her eyes looked fixedly before her.
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Notwithstanding these marks of active intelligence, Brother Hecker could not study, except by fits and starts.
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It was composed almost exclusively of middle-aged English and American ladies-widowsand spinsters-ofblameless morals and anxiously active intelligence.
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Was it that Napoleon, accustomed to the active intelligence of his soldiers, had reckoned too much upon their foresight?
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The active intelligence, and unremitting exertions of the Governor, Sir James Stirling, at length ameliorated the condition of the unfortunate settlers.
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Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own.
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Their hypothesis, called Intelligent Design (ID), proposes that the design evident in biology points to the actions of an active intelligence.
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In these changed times, something in the ambient air prevents any active intelligence from being unconscious of lands, peoples, struggles far beyond any province.
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Be that as it might, they certainly presented a higher level of active intelligence, and of behavior, than we had so far really grasped.
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Although no one has claimed responsibility, Afghanistan's interior ministry said it was executed in co-ordination with "an active intelligence service in the region".
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But he differed from Plato because he supposed only one immaterial substance to preside over all inferior bodies, which he called the " active intelligence."