Patient Intellect and Agent Intellect- Aquinas – Full topic described in Order description
Use the following resources :
“Aristotle and the Agent Intellect.” De Anima, 3.5. Trans. Mark Smillie. Print.
Klima, Gyula, Fritz Allhoff, and Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, eds. Medieval Philosophy Essential
Readings with Commentary. Blackwell, 2007. Print.
Full topic :
Explain the distinction between the Agent Intellect and the Patient Intellect: why is this distinction necessary according to Aristotelianism? What are the reasons for maintaining that the Agent Intellect is the same in all souls? Why does Aquinas reject this claim and what arguments does he use to refute it? What difficulties follow from Aquinas’s account of the relationship between the soul and the body?