O jedności intelektu przeciw awerroistom

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Thomas wrote this short polemical treatise in Paris in 1270, against masters of the arts faculty, among them Siger of Brabant, who followed Averroes in teaching a single intellect for all humans. Most of the five chapters argue from Aristotle’s text and from Greek and Arabic commentators that Averroes misread Aristotle. The key philosophical point is that it is the individual human being who thinks: if thought did not belong to the individual, no one could be said to know anything. The treatise ends with a challenge to answer in writing, not “in corners” or “before boys”. In December 1270 the bishop of Paris, Étienne Tempier, condemned thirteen propositions, among them the unity of the intellect.

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• Wielkie komentarze do Arystotelesaok. 1190 · Awerroes

Odpowiedź w

• O duszy intelektualnej (De anima intellectiva)ok. 1273 · Siger z Brabancji

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• O nieśmiertelności duszy1516 · Pietro Pomponazzi

Więcej dzieł: Tomasz z Akwinu

• ok. 1265Summa contra gentiles
• 1273Summa theologiae