Aristotle and Plotinus on the intellect : monism and dualism revisited
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Aristotle and Plotinus on the intellect : monism and dualism revisited
Lexington Books, c2012
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Description
This book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt argues that Aristotle transforms the Platonic doctrine of Ideal Numbers into an astronomical account of the unmoved movers, which function as the multiple intelligible content of divine Intellect. Thus, within Aristotle we have in germ the Plotinian doctrine that the intelligibles are within the Intellect. While the content of divine Intellect is multiple, it does not imply that divine Intellect possesses a degree of potentiality, given that potentiality entails otherness and contraries. Rather, the very content of divine Intellect is itself; it is Thought Thinking Itself. The pure activity of divine Intellect, moreover, allows for divine Intellect to know the world, and the acquisition of this knowledge does not infect divine Intellect with potentiality. The status of the intelligible object(s) within divine Intellect is pure activity that is identical with divine Intellect itself, as T. De Koninck and H. Seidl have argued. Therefore, the intelligible objects within divine Intellect are not separate entities that determine divine Intellect, as is the case in Plotinus.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Klaus Brinkmann
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I
Chapter One: Aristotle On The Platonic Two-Principles Doctrine:
The One and The Indefinite Dyad
Chapter Two: Speusippus and Aristotle
Chapter Three: Aristotelian Henology
Chapter Four: The Anatomy of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Chapter Five: The Unmoved Mover and The Simplicity and Priority of nou:V: Metaphysics L 7, De Anima III.4-5, and Metaphysics L 9
Part II
Chapter Six: The =Epistrofhv of the One and The Derivation of nou:V
Chapter Seven: Plotinus On Phantasia: Phantasia As The Home Of Self-Consciousness Within The Soul
Chapter Eight: Alcinous and Alexander On The Intelligibles Within nou:V
Chapter Nine: Plotinus On The Simplicity of nou:V: An Appropriation And Critique Of Aristotle's Noetic Doctrine
Conclusion
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