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In the Aristotelian scheme, nous is the basic understanding or awareness that allows human beings to think rationally. For Aristotle, this was distinct from the processing of sensory perception, including the use of imagination and memory, which other animals can do.
11 wrz 2007 · This essay challenges the received orthodoxy that in Aristotle, nous, the capacity for intuitive insight and logos, the capacity of combination that belongs to human discursive thinking, are mutually exclusive, independently operating capacities of the human mind.
7 gru 2021 · Nous in this sense is an excellent state of theoretical reason that consists in comprehending what something is by taking on its form in our mind. 31 In the APo and NE VI, Aristotle takes this understanding to be the principle of epistēmē, scientific knowledge of the causes of things.
8 paź 2000 · In Metaphysics Α.1, Aristotle says that “everyone takes what is called ‘wisdom’ (sophia) to be concerned with the primary causes (aitia) and the starting-points (or principles, archai)” (981 b 28), and it is these causes and principles that he proposes to study in this work.
Summary. No work in the ancient philosophy corpus has generated more scholarly discussion in recent years than Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (N.E.), and no issue that it raises has been more controversial than Aristotle’s position (s) throughout the work concerning the ultimate human good, which he consistently identifies with eudaimonia ...
Why is nous divided at the human level into two, passive and active, given that at the divine level Nous is always active, as it should be to retain its nature? What do the two have in common to justify their appellation of nous poietikos and nous pathetikos respectively?
Aristotle introduces a division into mind (nous) which he maintains is present generally in nature, between the active and the passive (DA 430a10–14). The active mind is compared to a craft, while the passive mind is likened to matter (DA 430a12–13).
