Naslov
Avicena's "De Anima"

Autori
Paša, Željko

Izvornik
Disputatio philosophica : international journal on philosophy and religion (1332-1056) 9 (2007), 1; 113-127

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Soul; body; immortality; senses; intellect; intellectus agens; intellectus in acto; knowledge

Sažetak
Avicenna proposes that the soul must be an incorporeal substance because intellectual thoughts themselves are indivisible. Presumably he means that a coherent thought, involving concepts in some determinate order, cannot be had in parts by different intellects and still remain a single coherent thought. In order to be a coherent single unity, a coherent thought must be had by a single unified intellect rather than, for example, one intellect having one part of the thought, another soul a separate part of the thought and yet a third intellect having a third distinct part of the same thought. In other words, a coherent thought is indivisible and can be present as such only to an intellect that is similarly unified or indivisible. However, corporeal matter is divisible ; therefore the indivisible intellect that is necessary for coherent thought cannot be corporeal. It must therefore be incorporeal, since those are the only two available possibilities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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