Active Intellect in Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas

Title: Active Intellect in Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas
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Active Intellect in Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight”. This is the foundation of human knowledge Aristotle presents us with in Book Alpha of the Metaphysics. The next question which we must naturally ask ourselves is, How? How is it that we can have any knowledge …showed first 75 words of 1057 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1057 total…to be actually. This implies that there is something similar to Plato’s world of Forms insofar as man is cut off to a pre-existing knowledge and with which we are not in communication. Where Plato called it the re-collection of forgotten forms I believe Aristotle to call it divine reason actuating itself in human reason. Because all men by nature to desire to know, and by knowing we share in the being of God.

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