He identified the active intellect (nous poietikos), through whose agency the potentialintellect in man becomes actual, with God.
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Refined seventy times seven, they are still material ; intellect dwells not there; nor will fire ever make lead gold!
Uso de passive intellect em inglês
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Therefore there is an active and a passiveintellect in an angel.
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For this knowledge is imprinted upon Christ for the perfection of the passiveintellect.
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Therefore there cannot be an active and a passiveintellect in them, except equivocally.
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Hence there is no need for admitting an active and a passiveintellect in them.
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But the passiveintellect is an immaterial power.
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Objection 1: It would seem that there is both an active and a passiveintellect in an angel.
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Others give the name of passiveintellect to the cogitative power, which is called the "particular reason."
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Now the passiveintellect is said to be separate, because it is not the act of any corporeal organ.
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Now, the passiveintellect is said to be each thing, inasmuch as it receives the intelligible species of each thing.
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Hence too, it is all things passively which intellect is impassively, and on this account Aristotle calls it passiveintellect.
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In subordination to the passiveintellect, the external faculty, the active reason, is also to be cultivated; it deserves care, like the skin.
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But it does not belong to the passiveintellect to abstract the intelligible species from the phantasm, but to receive them when abstracted.
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We do not, however, remember because this is impassive; but the passiveintellect is corruptible, and without this the separate intellect understands nothing.
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Whether There Is an Active and a PassiveIntellect in an Angel?
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(4) Is there in the angels an active and a passiveintellect?
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4: Further, the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 5) there are two things in the intellectual soul-thepassiveintellect and the active intellect.