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    Intellect or intellectual principles and powers must be i... — Carmelics
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    Intellect or intellectual principles and powers must be introduced to explain man

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    • 1.Man possesses speech
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    • 2.Speech proceeds from intellect or the intellectual principles and powers
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    • 3.The soul alone is insufficient to explain man's distinctive capacities
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    • 1.Speech and rational behavior can be fully explained as emergent properties of complex biological and social organization, without positing a separate intellectual principle.
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    • 2.Aristotle's hylomorphism demonstrates that the soul as form of the body already accounts for all human capacities, including reason, without requiring an additional ontological layer.
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    • 1.Ibn Rushd (Averroes) argued that the material intellect is a single, unified substance shared by all humans, making individual intellectual principles explanatorily superfluous for explaining particular persons.
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    • 2.If intellect is universal and impersonal rather than individuated, it cannot serve as the distinguishing explanatory principle for what makes any specific man who he is.
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    Aristotle's hylomorphism demonstrates that the soul as form of the body already ...Ibn Rushd (Averroes) argued that the material intellect is a single, unified sub...If intellect is universal and impersonal rather than individuated, it cannot ser...Man possesses speech
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    ‘Abd al-Latif reminds that in Aristotle’s science of nature the fundamental epistemological criterion holds that man must start from what is attested to by the senses, to then proceed to what is hidden, until he knows everything which he desires to know. For this reason, he goes on in the study of plants and then of animals. He catalogues their species, and explains the apparatus of organs which each animal species is provided with. Since organs alone are not sufficient to explain animal life, m
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